Do you catch the clips of President Obama’s sarcastic and condescending comments about Thursday’s Tea Parties? Investor’s Business Daily did, and had this, among other things, to say:
“You would think they’d be saying thank you,” he said.
In fact, that wasn’t his promise at all.
The article goes on to say that nearly one-half of the $670 billion in tax increases that Obama has enacted hit the middle class.
What kind of a “right” mandates that you exercise it? For example, imagine a law that imposes a monetary fine on anyone who does not own a gun or who does not belong to a church. Can you imagine the New York Times, or NBC, or any other component of the left-stream media describing such laws as guaranteeing a right to bear arms and to practice religion? Yet the left-stream media invariably lauds Obamacare as guaranteeing a right to health care.
Saying that Obamacare guarantees a right to health care is at best nonsensical. It’s like saying that that the Internal Revenue Code guarantees a right to pay taxes. Of course, the Orwellian use of language by the left-stream media is quite deliberate. The left-stream media is in the tank for Obama because he, like them, wants to turn the United States into a European-style nanny-state.
And we are almost there. The PGA Championship is known as “Glory’s Last Shot” because it is the last of golf’s four majors. The 2010 and 2012 elections may be called “Freedom’s Last Shot” because they may be our last shot to stop the descent to the ant heap of totalitarianism.
The present Supreme Court of the United States is not going to strike down Obamacare. There are four incorrigible left-leaning judicial activists on the Supreme Court, so all Obama needs to do is pick off one other justice. Indeed, I think that the tactless remarks Obama directed to the Supreme Court at the State of the Union speech were really about Obamacare. It was a message to the gang-of-four that we’ve got your back. And it was a shot across the bow of the other justices; this is what to expect if you mess with us, so don’t.
Justice Anthony Kennedy famously flipped his vote in the Casey case because he feared the opprobrium of the chattering class if Roe v. Wade were overturned. It’s hard to see him being the fifth vote to strike down Obamacare. And while I am sure Justice Antonin Scalia could care less how his vote plays politically, based on his concurring opinion in Gonzales v. Raich (the Califormia medical marijuana case) it’s also hard to see Scalia voting to strike down Obamacare.
So, the 2010 and 2012 elections will be, to borrow a phrase famously used by Ronald Reagan nearly fifty years ago, a time for choosing. The choice is between liberty, on the one hand, and the illusion of security and the reality of government control, on the other.
Obamacare represents a moral judgment that the end, providing accessible and affordable healthcare to everyone (or, more accurately, what government deems to be accessible and affordable healthcare), justifies the means, denying the individual the right to choose whether to carry health insurance. Such a moral judgment leads inexorably to healthcare rationing and heavy and ubiquitous government control over our lives.
If the goal of accessible and affordable health care is to be treated as paramount, then the so-called individual mandate is just the tip of the governmental power iceberg. Government also would have the power to prevent any one person from using too much healthcare because that could make health care inaccessible and unaffordable for everyone else. Yes that torn meniscus does make your knee very sore and does prevent you from enjoying the quality of life that you are used to, but unfortunately an arthroscopy is not the type of procedure available to someone with your demographics. But the good news is that if you do become addicted to Percocet your rehab is fully covered.
Likewise government would have the power to prevent you from engaging in activities that might lead to your “over-utilizing” health care. To name just a few examples, riding motorcycles on interstate highways, skydiving, bungee cord jumping, and hiking a 4,000 footer between December 1st and April 30th could all be prohibited or discouraged in the name of health care accessibility and affordability. And there is no denying how important diet is to health. Restaurants could be required to obtain governmental approval for their menus. Grocery stores could be required to replace red meat with soybean shakes.
Of course, the left will say this is all fear-mongering. Well, I have a couple of questions for them. How many new federal agencies are created by Obamacare (I understand over 150), and what specifically is each agency’s authority?
What really has me worried is that Obama is planning to nominate a radical left-wing activist to replace Justice John Paul Stevens next year, and the treatment that Chief Justice Roberts got from the White House is just a small taste of what’s in store for anyone who has the temerity to oppose Obama’s nominee.
Back from Orlando, and tan, rested and ready. OK maybe not that tan or rested, but certainly ready — an all new Ed Mosca Show, including:
The Dow is back down below 10,000. Iran has taken a giant step toward a nuclear weapon.
And what is President Obama doing in response? He wants hold a bi-partisan meeting on health care, which has the real and sole purpose of trying to make Republicans look obstructionist.
Way to go, Barry. Way to go.
The unemployment rate dropped to 9.7 percent in January from 10 percent in December.
That’s good news, but let’s not forget that the Obama administration told us that the so-called stimulus would keep unemployment under 8 percent. More particularly, they told us that the stimulus would create between three and four million jobs by the end of 2010, and that without the stimulus unemployment would hit about 8.5 percent in 2009 and then continue rising to a peak of about 9 percent in 2010. With the stimulus, they predicted the unemployment rate would peak at just under 8 percent in 2009.
To paraphrase Al Gore, repeat after me – ”He betrayed this country! He played on our fears! He took America on an ill-conceived [domestic] adventure dangerous to our [economy], an adventure preordained and planned before [Goldman Sachs] ever took place.” Of course, to really paraphrase Al, make sure that you are screaming at the top 0f your lungs and gesturing wildly.
It’s almost like Scott Brown was never elected. Every day brings a new speech or pep talk from Obama about the need to pass Obamacare, and that he is not giving up on Obamacare, blah, blah, blah. It occurred to me that BH Obama is acting just like GW Bush was when the insurgency in Iraq was ascendant – in denial of reality.
Prior to the surge, Iraq was a hopeless quagmire and public opinion had turned against the war. Yet George W and his administration continued to sputter that it was hard work, but that the insurgency was in its death throes, blah, blah, blah.
The centerpiece of Scott Brown’s campaign, in arguably one of the most liberal, oops I mean progressive, states in the nation was that he would be the vote to stop Obamacare. Barack, my friend, if you can’t sell Obamacare in the Bay State, it’s not going to sell anywhere. Yet just like Bush, Obama continues to sputter the same bromides.
I guess BHO’s ego is so big that he really believes that he can turn public opinion on Obamacare through the grace and majesty of his oratory. Notwithstanding that he gave around, I believe, 30 speeches on Obamacare prior to the Scott Brown election and arguably the effect of all that bloviating was the Scott heard around the world.
Denial. Of a magnitude on par with GWB’s.
The DJIA down 550 points in 3 days. Yeah, keep sticking it to those big banks. Karl Marx would be proud!
No, I am not talking about the Scott Brown election. I am talking about President Obama’s foray into Ohio to talk about jobs, more specifically his claim that investments in clean-energy technologies will help boost the nation’s economy.
If government planning and government spending could create economic growth, the economy would be at warp speed right now. Government has been “stimulating” the economy for two years now, and all that has done is make a bad economy worse.
Indeed, if government planning could create economic growth, we would have lost the Cold War and the Soviet Union would have won.
President Obama, just look around you and look at history, government is not the solution to our current economic ills, it’s the cause.
how the “mainstream media” would react if a Republican President stood poised to jump on a jet for a vacation in Hawaii, a mere days after the Copenhagen Climate summit. He or she would be skewered for “not getting it,” and/or “thumbing his/her nose at the global community.” Yet not a negative word about Barack’s upcoming vacation to Hawaii. And, of course, not a word about the hypocrisy of a man who has just pledged to lower America’s so-called “carbon footprint” to 1875 levels, jetting halfway around the world on Airforce One and its accompanying aerial entourage.
