A video from “The Governor” Blagojevich describing his life and times with Tony Rezko, Rahm Emmanuel and Barack Obama as he faced “the loneliness of the job” is after the Read More. Plus, Mark Tapscott reports that Congress has pre-emptively exempted itself from Obama care, conveying a certain something about what they really think about it. But for a clearer depiction of the atmosphere prevailing among the leaders, listen to video.
embedded by Embedded VideoOne of the clearest messages from the Town Hall forums during the August congressional recess was that people want Congress to be covered by the same health care reform plan they impose on the rest of us. …
Moffit points to an amendment offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-NV, during a House Ways and Means Committee meeting just before the recess began that would have required Members to be covered by the Public Option plan if they approve it for private citizens.
AdvertisementPredictably, however, the Heller amendment was defeated, with all 21 committee Democrats voting against it. That vote is indicative of the reality that any bill requiring Congress to be covered by the same health care as the public has the proverbial snow ball in Hades’ chances of being enacted.
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Well, any suggestions on what to do if it passes? Does anyone else see this plan as extortion? Forcing us to pay fines if we don’t sign up for health insurance doesn’t wash with me. Evil pervades this administration. They seek to control human beings. Isn’t that slavery? Again, any suggestions of what to do if it passes?
Imagine the irony. The first [half-]black president re-introduces slavery to the United States. Must mean he’s a Democrat.
Blago cannot turn on the Party. He is like one of the Old Bolsheviks facing a show trial under Stalin. All he can do is protest that he really wanted Health Care Reform prematurely. What stands out to me is his focus on Rahm Emanuel. Obama is a cipher but Emanuel is a force he is afraid to cross.
Regarding health care it is interesting that the Democrats are OK with a separate and better plan for government employees then they offer to the rest of the country. Bush tried to get the general public access to a retirement plan modeled on the Thrift Savings Plan available to federal workers. The Democrats who live off of the dependency created by Social Security killed that effort. They are doing the same thing to create additional dependency with health care.
Our whiskey has been linked to by Theo Spark! I stand in awe.
This bill is a thousand plus pages of legalese so broadly and loosely written as to allow it to mean anything our socialist masters need it to mean. Does this bill have anything to do with healthcare other than to use it as a convenient emotional cover for passage? They hurry to get this passed while we still sleep.
Do I understand correctly that this bill, if pass, would not come into effect until 2013?
If so, why rush to pass this bill? That’s a rhetorical question. I think the Prez and congress know full well that the great unwashed would not go for a single page of it if they knew everything that was in it.
And if this was put into effect sooner rather than later, nobody would be voting for “Teh One” in 2012.
One of the provisions of the Contract With America in 1994 was that the Congress would be subject to some provisions of law (having to do with ADA and some other employment discrimination and harassment laws, IIRC). Dems ridiculed the CWA until the day after the election.
Some people call the Repubs the Stupid Party.
” any bill requiring Congress to be covered by the same health care as the public has the proverbial snow ball in Hades’ chances of being enacted”
Orwell knew; Some Pigs are more Equal than others.
We are certainly being governed by “Some Pigs”.
Congress and federal employees can have their own version of the healthcare plan. I have no objection to that.
Provided they pay for their plan with their OWN money. Not a dime from the taxpayer trough.
@1 Over-compliance has long been an effective form of protest, something Gandhi did to the British. If your boss makes you fill out forms for everything, then do it excessively and drown him in paperwork.
In short, give them what they want, and lots of it… Go see the doctor for a stubbed toe or a paper-cut, for example. Better to break the system early than let it grow into a monster.
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly – Duel
Soon after Bill Clinton was elected Al Gore pushed through Congress his Reinventing Government Initiative, which mandsted an across the board 30% cut in the Federal civilian workforce. And in the case of DoD that 30% did not include the overall 40% plus cut it was already undergoing.
Congressional Democrats had a little talk with Bill, and at the signing of the bill he somewhat sheepishly announced that Congress had already cut its own workforce and thus the cuts would not apply to them.
I won’t go into the details of the Reinventing Govt bill or the asburd way it was implemented by the Denizens of DC – suffice to say they looked to have written by the KGB and implemented by Al Queda – but the attacks of 9/11/01, the loss of the Shuttle Columbia, and multiple procurement disasters since then are all due in part to Reinventing Government.
RWE: let me guess: the 30% RIF was carried out by the very people who were the problem, and many of those cut were people complaining about the problem. Am I close?
OT I saw that BHO is thinking about the soft drink tax that already helped get Gov. Patterson ridiculed. This screams for a tabloid headline, “Soda Jerk.”
” any bill requiring Congress to be covered by the same health care as the public has the proverbial snow ball in Hades’ chances of being enacted”
While a laudable goal, even if the Congress was covered under the same rules, they would be given preference.
Roderick, RWE,
Gore’s RIF came up in a conversation last week.
I’m a volunteer for the U. of Arizona’s Master Gardener extension office, and to garner exposure for our volunteers I “face” for the group at several local community events. Last week we attended the Flagstaff Community Market, and, in between questions about blighted tomatoes and senescent Aspens, one of Flagstaff’s aged, resident politicos approached my table with a “global warming” question.
First, she asked if the Master Gardeners were “following” global warming, and I gleefully took the bait. Being an ardent empiricist, I am compositionally unable to parrot the tenets of the Church of Gore, so I advised the visitor that I personally am “following” it, and that there is a lot of data available suggesting that the earth is, in fact, cooling – and that it has been since ’round ’98. She responded by saying that Al Gore says different.
This was the opening that I’d been waiting for: I asked, “Al who?” Obviously upset, she enunciated, “Al Gore, you know.” To which I asked, “Al Gore, the politician who “reinvented government” during the Clinton terms?” “Yes,” she returned, her temper was growing short, as she was clearly looking for a pat, politically correct answer that I was unwilling to give her. So, sensing my time was short, I cut to the chase: “Can politicians control the climate?”
She emitted a barely audible grunt, spun on her left heel, and shuffled away to the refuge of the “sustainability” group she came with. Meanwhile, my ears burned as she gesticulated wildly in my direction, her jaw wagging excitedly, and her compadres’ gaped. I had scored a direct hit!
The question often comes up, what, if anything, have members of our governing classes ever achieved in their elected bodies? One answer is, looking busy. The sole directive Al Gore was given by his President during eight years in DC, that of “reinventing Government,” was never really achieved. But, like so many initiatives, the loud advertisement and the impressions that the publicity generates is the initiative. Al Gore, the supposed champion for small government, was being primed for national office – that priming, not measurable fiscal restraint, was the real goal of Clinton’s directive.
Anyone dumb enough to believe Gore’s fiscal-conservative ‘fides was disabused of their delusion by Gore’s recent admission that “Global Warming” was supposed to generate public support for one world government. Gore’s goal is to grow government – all kinds of government – all around the world, not shrink it. America’s, or Australia’s, or Britain’s autonomy in this coerced “order” can be damned.
Gore’s mask has slipped, and now, so has Van Jones’. The charade is over, the masks are coming off, and the disco-ball at the masquerade has crashed to the floor. Say whatever you want about G. W. Bush, but he was adept at cutting through layers of proxies and revealing the naked puppeteers beneath.
Imagine how far along the Prog’s project would be if Gore had won in 2000, and Kerry (of “Global Test” fame), had won in 2004. I shudder to think.
Cheers,
Steve
Steve:
You sell the Vice-President short. I do believe he was also put in charge of US efforts to help Russia become a thriving Democratic society.
Thanks, Davod…I stand corrected.
Boy, that Russia thing sure turned out good. ‘Seems we adopted the Kremlin’s czars and centralized media-messaging, and they adopted our….
What of ours did Putin adopt? (Bush’s flat tax)? Any of it? Or was Gore a one-way apparatchik?
The President of the United States is on live TV right now (AGAIN) telling us that America sucks, and dividing Americans one against another.
Sorry to go off topic.
It’s unbelievable.
Democrats believe when they win an election they get to RULE US.
The majority of Americans believe politicians get paid to SERVE US.
There is a larger purpose served in private citizens merely purchasing large quantities of ammunition and numbers of firearms.
Messages are sent, and by all but the densest, understood.
To a crook, to a politician, to a population wishing to discourage tyrants.
Without firearms, we are subjects, not citizens.
The 2nd amendment is not about plinking.
It is not about hunting.
It is not about sport shooting.
It is about nothing except the ability to resist tyranny.
In the 20th century, Stalin murdered sixty million of his own subjects.
Mao Dzedong murdered a similar number of Chinese.
Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge murdered possibly as many as three million of their fellow Cambodians.
The Communist government of the Vietnam reunited by the abandonment of South Vietnam by the Democrat-infested U.S. Congress, murdered several million of their fellows, and forced up to three million others to flee to other countries in rickety boats. Remember the Vietnamese Boat People?
The Argentine Junta that tried to expropriate Las Islas Malvinas to distract their oppressed public, had “disappeared” tens of thousands of young citizens, whose corpses were found only after the Junta was overthrown.
While the US did its dance over Watergate, with the young Hillary Rodham lying and hiding documents that should have been available for the Watergate investigators, Russia managed to undermine the government of Portugal, and engineer a coup. The result was chaos in the Portuguese military’s management of its struggle with MPLA rebels in Angola, and its eventual withdrawal. Followed by a bloodbath as the MPLA and UNITA rebels escalated their contest for control.
Look around the world, folks. In almost every instance where a government has confiscated firearms from its own people, that government has gone on to inflict murder against its domestic opponents on a scale far beyond any external adventures.
All the purchases will help remind the tyrants and bullies that it’s likely to be more difficult than they think to disarm the U.S.
JJRedFan:
And I still cannot get .380ACP!!!!!! This has been going on for a year or more. My favorite calibers are hard to find.
I hope that someone in DC is paying attention. But, you know, I do believe they do not care and think they can cow us into anything.
As the economy devolves and spins ever downward, there are those who are ruined and will soon reach the point where they only have the last thing to lose.
I remember, it was that oath about “all enemies, foreign and domestic”.
Whatever else happens, with the value of the dollar plummeting, unemployment rising like the water in the Titanic’s boiler-rooms, and the Captain buggering the wireless operator, the behavior of the rats is likely to follow classic patterns.
Home invasions, rapes, robberies, break-ins to parked vehicles, break-ins to businesses, armed robberies of child-care centers, laundromats, vending machines, fast fooderies, girl scouts selling cookies, newsstands, et cetera – all had better be prepared to fend off boarders.
Any where there’s a little circulatin’ coin or something worth having.
You’ll need to have claymores with tripwires facing out from the perimeter of your victory garden.
Seriously, sandbag bunkers are going to be the new architectural motif. In various sizes.