So if the administration and congress cannot reform these programs that are headed for one pressure cooker of a train wreck, can’t manage those, what makes them competent to administer any new ones?

Again they trot out the boilerplate of “there is a crisis”, ” we’ve got to do it NOW!”, “don’t bother to read it, much less debate the merits of this Bill”, “We’ve got to do this thing NOW!”, “Don’t you know there is a crisis?”, If we don’t do it NOW!, there will be a Great Depression!!”, “We’ve got A CRISIS™!!”

Did I mention there’s a crisis?”

And so on round and round it goes, leaving it to weasels to parse David Axelrods use of the word “ultimately” or his directive that debate, much less “reading” these Bills be suspended.

Just speak to us of the state of Social Security and Medicare, and why no one should worry, because there is all these cool green jobs gonna come, and free health care for all, and what else? Oh, I’m sure there is something.

The Dems in congress are losing their will to sign on for this stuff. The Cap & Trade bill that was to be pushed through Senate just after July 4th holiday has been postponed (plunging approval #s in inverse proportion to soaring disapproval #’s perhaps?) until september.

They are getting skittish, so look for this stuff to start dragging on, like its supposed to.

Which, if logic and reason are your guides, proves that government is designed to be conservative. It is designed to slow things down so that the frivolous and the fashionable is subjected to rigorous scrutiny in the hope that idiocy and usurpation[s] are driven out of policy.

So once Reid, Peloski, and 0bama have expropriated and looted the business and the personal, the gummit won’t do anything constructive on anyone’s account, except to preserve the political class through the institution of nepotism and a Gestapo that is necessary to enforce the socialist state.

So Churchill was right when he said that “a socialist state cannot be constructed without a gestapo to enforce it.”

And a socialist state enforced by a gestapo will be very “conservative” [as dhimmicrats like to think of it, their standard] by design and will not be interested in change in the least, too busy as it will be with enforcing docile compliance to its iron fisted rule.

Look, here’s the problem: we have too many Gletkins’ running around telling us Rubashovs’ how we’re supposed to be serving the State.

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And a very apt word it is in this case. “Ultimately” it IS about the results, just as it was for other measures passed during other administrations: Social Security, Medicare, the Voting Rights Act (or whatever the official title was), etc. Saying that Axelrod wants to “dispense with the political process” is a false interpretation of his statement. (BTW, as recent revelations attest, Bush/Cheney were masters at dispensing with the political process — but I don’t suppose you’ll have an indignant post about that.)