March began with white coated doctors at the White House, unable to reconcile the lies of a rabid socialized-medicine hound, committing malpractice by failing to first do no harm by clothing the big-eared, self-described mutt in a strait jacket.
We hope Sandra Bullock Blind Sides Oscar’s dogs tonight, but Braves-Gamecock hopes the madness continues with his undergraduate alma mater’s Terriers making the Big dance for the first time:
Since moving to Division I in 1995, the Wofford men’s basketball team has never made the NCAA tournament.
But this might be the year.
“I would streak back to Radford if that were to happen,” said Wofford coach Mike Young, a Radford High School graduate.
Young, 47, has steered Wofford (21-8, 13-3 Southern Conference) to its first 20-win season at the Division I level.
“There’s a lot of things to enjoy with a Heineken in hand this spring, but still a lot to accomplish,” said Young, an Emory & Henry graduate.
The winner of Thursday’s game between Wofford and visiting College of Charleston (19-9, 13-3) will clinch the SoCon regular-season title — and an automatic bid to the NIT, should that team not win the automatic NCAA bid that goes to the SoCon tournament champ. Wofford has never been to the NIT, either.
Wofford, a Spartanburg, S.C., school with just 1,439 students, has won eight straight since losing to Bobby Cremins’ College of Charleston squad 70-68 last month.
Wofford’s first win over our law school alma mater’s Gamecocks since 1939 earlier this year defined the regular season.
Last year’s leading Southern Conference March Madness star now an NBA sensation
I thought Davidson’s Stephen Curry might have been too small to make in the land of giants. Happily, I was wrong…
We can see the State Capitol from atop the rock MLK memorialized, but what we can’t see and wish we could, are:
Bleeding heart liberal public college professors willing to bleed their fat wallets to ensure that more low income students won’t face tuition hikes due to the Peach State’s massive budget shortfall;
Ethics legislation passed into law that protects us from rotten peaches, despite the lack of recent headlines about lobbyist-legislator incest.; and
Rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield’s (D-85) criminal records expengement bill passed into law.
Camel-not’s King doesn’t know Jack
(H/T to Rush Limbaugh’s parody with Bill Clinton as Merlin the Magician suggesting that King Obama and his square pegs’ poor fit at JFK’s Round Table.)
Jack Kennedy wouldn’t have prosecuted Justice Department lawyers and the CIA interrogators they advised for swabbing the nose of 911’s architect; Navy Seals that rubbed the tummy of terrorist muderers; nor read the BVD-bomber Miranda rights while dismissing charges against ACORN pimps and New Black Panther voter intimidation thugs.
Evan Bayh wouldn’t have felt the need to give up a safe senate seat due to disgust with a JFK-led Democratic Party. One only wishes Bayh had the courage to have waved bye-bye to the blood-sucking vampie of a Dem-o-Bat party rather than bemoaning a supposed “broken” Washington just as We the People were exerting our will to fix D.C.
This all reminds this rooster of H. L. Menchen’s description of the World’s Oldest political party as jackels worshipping jack asses.
Finally, with more hat tips to Rush and Mark Steyn: Want to see a non-strait-jacketed ObamaCare future? See Greece:
While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care “summit,” thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen – because they’re part of the same story. It’s just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They’re at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe. Chapter One (the introduction of unsustainable entitlements) leads eventually to Chapter 20 (total societal collapse): The Greeks are at Chapter 17 or 18.
What’s happening in the developed world today isn’t so very hard to understand: The 20th century Bismarckian welfare state has run out of people to stick it to. In America, the feckless insatiable boobs in Washington, Sacramento, Albany and elsewhere are screwing over our kids and grandkids. In Europe, they’ve reached the next stage in social democratic evolution: There are no kids or grandkids to screw over. The United States has a fertility rate of around 2.1 – or just over two kids per couple. Greece has a fertility rate of about 1.3: 10 grandparents have six kids have four grandkids – i.e., the family tree is upside down. Demographers call 1.3 “lowest-low” fertility – the point from which no society has ever recovered. And, compared with Spain and Italy, Greece has the least-worst fertility rate in Mediterranean Europe.
In Michael Crichton’s 1975 novel, The Great Train Robbery, we discover the limits of mid-19th Century England’s health care system to accurately determine when a patient has expired when reminded of the widespread demand for coffins equipped with noise making devices near the hands of the interred.
Not infrequently, undertakers were found to be premature in their under takings when sounds emanated from their pine boxes before they reached six-feet under.
But most often, the noises heard were death rattles rather than resurrections, and I wonder if the loudest non-dulcet tones emanating from Blair House last week were delayed muscular contractions of an ObamaCare corpse, as well as a convulsion of moral outrage, a decade and a half after Bill Bennett pronounced its death when perjury was, “just all about sex.”
Before moral outrage died, LBJ lied about Vietnam and chose not to seek re-election. Richard Nixon lied about a burglary cover-up, resigned the presidency in shame and repented to David Frost. Moral outrage died when Bill Clinton was impeached for repeatedly lying under oath, stayed in office and has yet to feel the need to repent.
But didn’t Paul Ryan’s Health Care Summit description of Democrats’ health care plans expose serial lying by President Barack Obama that not only was not about sex, but which is about a Dem-o-Bat blood-sucking theft of liberty from the rights of the American people to pursue health happiness that makes Watergate look infinitesimally smaller than third-rate?
Admittedly LBJ retains the prize for the most grave prevarications.
My question is, have the stimulus and health care e whoppers revived moral outrage among a majority of We the People so that even if an already November-doomed Democratic Party rams thru socialized medicine, the GOP could actually reverse the enactment of an entitlement for the first time in history?
I think so.
Moral outrage that affects the wallet is back and the Democrats are exposed like a vampire to a cross at High Noon.
President and Professor of Law, Barack Obama too a little time off from poking CEOs with his pitchfork a few weeks ago to deride captive Supreme Court Justices at the State of the Union for overturning “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman’s 1907 Congressional Act that prohibited corporations from contributing to federal campaigns for public office.
The public insult that Juan William’s derided immediately after the constitutionally required address would have been egregious enough had the non-tenured legal expert been correct about the recent case that overturned portions of the McCain-Feingold law, but, as Ronaldus Magnus said when asked if liberal Democrats were stupid: “No, there aren’t stupid. Its just that so much of what they know isn’t so.”
Well-funded free speech anathema to Democratic party policies
President Obama and the media critics are wrong to say the Court’s January ruling struck down the 1907 Tillman Act that bans corporate contributions to federal campaigns. It didn’t. It merely held unconstitutional portions of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law which freed the Post, the Times, Dan Rather, Chris Matthews, and Rachel Madow while putting a gag on tax-exempt groups like Family Research Council and, on the left, the Sierra Club. The Court ruled that corporations do not surrender their First Amendment rights to speak about public issues during an election campaign.
Justice Clarence Thomas skipped the State of the Union gong show. He refuses to take part in a ceremony that has become increasingly theatrical.
But Justice Thomas wonders why the left is so solicitous of the Tillman Act. He knows something about the background of that law. The Tillman Act was named for its chief sponsor, Sen. “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman, the arch-segregationist Democrat.
Sen. Tillman, says Justice Thomas, wanted to attack corporations because he saw them as backing the Republican Party, the leading defender of black civil rights. Tillman responded in a 1900 debate on the Senate floor to Republican criticism of his segregationist stance:
I want to call the Senator’s attention to one fact. He said that the Republican party gave the Negroes the ballot in order to protect themselves against the indignities and wrongs that were attempted to be heaped upon them by the enactment of the black code.
We did not disfranchise the Negroes until 1895. Then we had a constitutional convention convened which took the matter up calmly, deliberately, and avowedly with the purpose of disfranchising as many of them as we could under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.
Once again, the Supreme Court did notstrike down the Tillman Act. It struck down major portions of McCain-Feingold. But isn’t it odd to find all the right thinkers (and left doers) of today defending “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman’s legacy?
Ben Tillman was governor of South Carolina when it re-wrote its Constitution to conform to the egregious Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v Ferguson that re-defined the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law to mean “separate but equal.”
From Tillman’s one-drop rule to Harry Reid’s rule
In the late 19th early 20th Centuries, Tillman’s Democratic Party hadn’t evolved to the level of its 21st Century Harry Reid standard that accepts as equal the light-skinned that can turn negro dialects on and off at will.
No, the party of the donkey was so then so wedded to Jim Crow that they used their congressional majorities to silence Corporations that backed a Republican Party born to end slavery and enact civil rights laws.
Why limit segregation to just race?
Jim Crow’s great grandchildren now seek de jure segregation writ large, in terms well beyond race.
Yes, the Democratic Party is still a safe haven for people that slander their “typical White (read racist)” grandmothers. Now, though, instead of making them sit in the back of buses, they throw them under buses.
The Obama Administration continues the party’s racist tradition by protecting New Black Panther voter intimidation thugs in Philly while denying black majorities in the Tar Heel State the right to hold non-partisan municipal elections lest Black folks forget where their bread is buttered.
ObamaDems push criminal laws that devalue hate against White folks and deny Indian tribes the right to drill for oil on reservations.
In short, the Democratic Party of the past three centuries see governance as a cornucopia of segregation possibilities, the latest being the separation of We the People from our right to pursue happiness unless that happiness is sought with a union card or at the direction of a Pay Czar.
In their desperation to pass socialized medicine, they even sought “constructive secessions” by reconstructing Nebraska as the Medicaid master of 49 states and the District of Columbia. Even those that fired on Fort Sumter weren’t that ambitious.
Obama’s horse corpses
Recently, several Democrats and even some Republicans have suggested that the failing President replace his inner circle, dubbed by Mark Steyn as the “Four Corpsemen of the Obamalypse”. I understand why liberals would want to try and get more competent handlers in order that Obama could be more successful in advancing the statist agenda.
Thank God Obama is failing
But wasn’t Rush right, and speaking for the vast majority of We the People when he declared his desire, over a year ago, that he wished Obama would fail? Obviously.
Therefore, isn’t it time for elected Republicans and pundits to stop giving Obama advice on how to better ruin America and instead call out Obama for what he is? Obviously.
Remember Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers and the Marxist dreams of his father? Is Jay Rockefeller really surprised to find that the Senator that desired to bankrupt the coal industry still pines for a coal-free nation as President.
Republicans can never make the Drive-By media stop calling us bigots no matter how much we try to conform to their PC Police codes, so why not take off the gloves and call out the Democrats for what they truly are.
They don’t care about the poor and middle class, and we can’t wait another century for them to see the dark-skinned with southern accents as equals.
Gamecock announces the dawn of only the sixth Super Bowl in which one of our favorite teams is participating, still a bit tired from our fourth week of immersion in contract law, but even more beleaguered from last evening’s defense of “right-wing Christians” accused of having taken over the federal government.
Proudly wearing our Colts horseshoe, we were surprised to find that one of our hawkish on defense and economic conservative friends thinks that a third-party Warren Buffet as President would be preferable to a return to power of the Republican Party given its supposed obeisance to Falwell fundamentalism and that the ObamaDem dominance will have been worth it once they inevitably legalize cannabis sativa nationwide.
Don’t hold your toke waiting on that one, anymore than you should wonder who dat team that will prevent saints from marching back to the Crescent City with the Lombardi trophy.
My good-natured conservative friend carries no flag for liberals or democrats, and affirmed his belief in America’s historical exceptionalism, but didn’t seem to appreciate the coincidence and contradiction of the influence of Judeo-Christian values in producing our greatness even while his libertarianism leanings blinded him to the real enemies of personal freedom in the World’s Oldest Party, i.e. the Democrats.
Contrary to Drive-by media myths of old concerning supposed Christian intent to “impose” their will on America, it is those of the modern day liberal persuasion that have done so via unconstitutional judicial fiat for decades; arguably legally thru bureaucratic interpretation of vague laws passed by cowardly congresses; and today through super-majorities over-interpreting their 2008 election mandate to fundamentally transform the exceptional America.
No, my good libertarian friends, your natural allies to protect civil liberties are those same Christians some of you love to loathe, and not Barack Hussein Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
Even if they could make marijuana legal across the Fruited Plain (and their are certainly strong 10th Amendment arguments that they could do so absent a constitutional amendment regarding the usurpation of state police powers), I missed the announcement of their intention so to do. Moreover, no true libertarian would find the trade off between legal pot, and the ObamaDem taking away of the means to earn enough money to by a pot to put the pot in.
The underlying problem I see in this mentality is the failure of the GOP and conservatives to dispel the another myth, i.e. that there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the parties.
Fact: There are 10.3 and 10.56 trillion dime’s worth of difference between Bush’s worst budget deficit ($400 billion, and even that one passed by a Democratic Congress with then Senator Obama voting aye) and the first two budget deficits of the ObamaDem super-majority.
This is a difference not merely in quantity, but in kind. The Obama spending threatens the currency and economic well-being immediately. In contrast, the Bush spending looks quaint by comparison. Why, we could slouch towards Gomorrah as a country for 100 more years at the Bush rate. Obama has us at the precipice.
Looking at the past 20, 40 and even 60 years, there simply is no comparison on civil liberties, national defense and economic prosperity between the policies of Democrats vs. Republicans. I am a conservative first, but to imagine that voting for a supposed conservative Democrat could possibly do any good while making Pelosi speaker, is just folly. Voting third party also merely empowers the left. See Bull Mooses paving the Wilson way and Perot ushering in Bubba.
Another good conservative friend with libertarian/third party leanings, albeit also a Christian not hostile to the Christian Church, asks why must conservatives “settle” for an impure GOP in arguing for Tea Parties to produce a third party to fix the system.
There is a very conservative reason why conservatives should eschew the Utopian dream of a pure conservative third party and always vote Republican: Since Eve bit the apple and man was banished from the garden, we have had to settle for a world east of Eden. This is fundamental, and together with the recent history of the Democratic Party, makes it vital that Democrats be removed from power.
The Tea Party movement is essentially a visceral reaction and revulsion of Americans to big government that will translate into a huge victory for the GOP this November. The new myth of the media is to focus on the differences between individual tea drinkers and muse about how democrats could co-opt some of them.
Poppycock!
These Lipton lovers will kick out the bums in office now, and they are democrats, all 60 of which in the Senate who voted for socialized medicine should dispel any myth that there are any moderates worthy of that squishy word in any event.
Looking back, wouldn’t we die for the Bush deficits compared to the disaster we find ourselves in now? Any rational person would. Should we make sure that next time we have power that we exercise it much better? Yes again and amen. But politically, we must stop feeding the lies that there is no difference between the parties and that a third party could be our salvation.
And Warren Buffet? Please Jesus, take time off from dominating the Party of Lincoln long enough to help me weather that nomination.
Buffett voted for Obama. Buffett is an expert at making Buffett rich no matter who is President. Buffett like to be liked by the Manhattan-DC-Boston elites, and you don’t get invited to their parties if you get too close to Christians that really believe the Bible.
And as to those Bible-thumpers with whom I proudly associate myself, does anyone ever wonder from whence came the tolerance, love for liberty and compassion for fallen enemies came but from a adaptation of turning the other cheek? Libertarians, you want the right to make a living in America? Keep more of your paycheck? Drive an SUV? Drill for oil?
Then vote GOP.
Want to make marijuana legal in Georgia? Use your free speech to persuade a majority to do so. It is Republicans that respect majorities. It is Democrats that employ judges to impose views on majorities.
Finally, an aside on the pro-life position of my good conservative Christian friend, who seems, at times, to go out of his way to make clear to assumed social liberals that his pro-life position doesn’t wish for a “national law” to impose his preference on all the states.
First, let me admit that I may be being too harsh in my criticism of this position and a bit hypocritical given that Fred Thompson did persuade me a few years ago that it is a better strategy to focus on replacing pro-Roe v Wade judges and pass state laws rather than seek a federal pro-life amendment.
That said, pro-lifers need not fear this issue politically, even as we naturally must now focus on the threat to our economy and terrorism. After all, we can fight against abortion in moral terms without changing the law; but if a president won’t defend our nation, we won;t be defended and if congress won’t let us pursue happiness and private property, we can’t fight that very well in the pulpit.
That said, either abortion is killing or its not. It is, and everyone knows it, and just as I favor every state having laws against homicides with malice aforethought for those un-tethered to an umbilical cord, I also pray for the day that America’s 50 states and the District of Columbia once again protect the umbilically tied.
And politically, pro-life is now the majority position with the generations younger than the baby boomers being even larger.
The rooster for Indianapolis simply crows so that we not be fooled by the media into thinking there is any real political dissonance between libertarians and Christian conservatives. There is not.
And if any on our side seek purity, don’t seek it through a third party or any man-made institution promised to Eve to be as Gods with a bite of the apple. Seek purity through God.
Conservatives know Utopia is beyond this world. In other words my friends, at some level, we do have to settle.
And given the history of the Dem Party and third parties, the only place to settle is the Grand Ole Party.
Cockstradamus:
2011 House of Representatives – GOP +11, Senate GOP +1
Dark-skinned with a Southern accent, Devan Downey will never be the Democratic Party’s Harry Reid-approved choice for a Presidential candidate. But the University of South Carolina’s Fighting Gamecock star in his team’s prime-time ESPN win over then undefeated and number one ranked Kentucky Wildcats this week sure showed up the light-skinned accent-less President.
Braves-Gamecock (pictured) knew, when he heard the sycophant in the White House campaign for Kentucky’s team to congratulate them on their rise to the top of the AP college basketball poll and tell them that they need not worry too much about their game in Columbia that evening, that USC would probably win, given the Barack kisses of death in post-Inauguration elections in Georgia, New Jersey and Virginia.
This was the first time my law school alma mater had ever beaten a team that was ranked #1 at the time, but it was not our greatest win. Under Frank McGuire in the late 60s and early 70s, South Carolina was a major power in college hoops and even won the ACC with a 14-0 record when All-American John Roche lead the team. The Gamecocks have also won the SEC in the 90s and beaten Kentucky twice in some years.
But what is most special about this week’s win, was that the country was introduced to the jewel of a small player from the small town of Chester, S.C., whose game is anything but small. The sports world is gaga for Devan Downey (pictured).
Braves-Gamecock nation joins forces with Tebow-nation this week to remind the NFL-creeps that whether their horse-teeth inspectors relegate the Florida Gator to a glue factory or not, matters not a whit to those that love the college game and that see it as a superior test of athletic ability and leadership.
NFL’s social darwinists can’t take Heisman away
I was not part of the worship Tim crowd, but there is no denying what a good man this is and that his achievements on the gridiron make him one of the top football players of all-time. They take the Heisman away from those the NFL shun.
That said, we are looking forward to only our sixth Super Bowl ever in which one of our teams is participating. As a life-long Colts fan who also pulls for Dixie’s falcons and Panthers, we hope the Saints go marching out of Miami as losing martyrs trampled under equine foot.
Braves Pitchers and catchers report in 21 days and we hope that before the first umpire’s regular season cry of “Play Ball!”, that Obama campaigns for the Phillies.
President Barack Obama has told congressional Republicans that it’s time to work more closely together to solve the country’s problems. He made the comments during a speech at a retreat of House Republicans Friday in Baltimore
Obama Lays Out Parameters for Bipartisan Health Reform
“If I get confirmation from health care experts, people who know the experts and how it works – including doctors and nurses – ways of reducing people’s premiums, covering those who not have insurance, making it more affordable for small businesses, having insurance reforms that ensure people have insurance even when they’ve got pre-exisiting conditions that their coverage is not dropped just because they’re sick. That young people right out of college or as they’re entering into the work force can still get health insurance. If those component parts are things that you care about and want to do, I’m game. And I’ve got a lot of these ideas.”
Obama on C-SPAN Coverage
Horrible answer, having committee meetings about a phantom bill while the real legislation is being written and negotiated behind closed doors both at the White House and in Congress is not transparency!
Obama on Earmarks
This is just ridiculous, Obama’s biggest cheerleaders – MSNBC, even pointed out the political slight of hand the Dems used to claim that the stimulus had no earmarks.
Obama on Lobbyists in Administration
Btw – PoliFact has already rated this fallacy as Obama promise broken and here’s a list of lobbyists Hot Air put out about a year ago… the list has grown since then:
Here are former lobbyists Obama has tapped for top jobs:
Eric Holder, attorney general nominee, was registered to lobby until 2004 on behalf of clients including Global Crossing, a bankrupt telecommunications firm [now confirmed].
Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year on behalf of the National Education Association.
William Lynn, deputy defense secretary nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for defense contractor Raytheon, where he was a top executive.
William Corr, deputy health and human services secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until last year for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit that pushes to limit tobacco use.
David Hayes, deputy interior secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until 2006 for clients, including the regional utility San Diego Gas & Electric.
Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for financial giant Goldman Sachs.
Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was registered to lobby until 2005 for clients, including the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, U.S. Airways, Airborne Express and drug-maker ImClone.
Mona Sutphen, deputy White House chief of staff, was registered to lobby for clients, including Angliss International in 2003.
Melody Barnes, domestic policy council director, lobbied in 2003 and 2004 for liberal advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the American Constitution Society and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Cecilia Munoz, White House director of intergovernmental affairs, was a lobbyist as recently as last year for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group.
Patrick Gaspard, White House political affairs director, was a lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union.
Michael Strautmanis, chief of staff to the president’s assistant for intergovernmental relations, lobbied for the American Association of Justice from 2001 until 2005.
Could New York Democrat’s proposal to extend the Bush tax cuts mark the beginning of the restoration of Americans’ unalienable rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Two House Democrats in tough reelection races are asking Congress and President Barack Obama to extend the Bush tax cuts:
Reps. Bobby Bright (D-Ala.) and Mike McMahon (D-N.Y., pictured) asked members in a “Dear Colleague” letter Thursday to support extending the tax cuts, which passed in 2001 and 2003 and are set to expire this year, for at least another two years. Specifically, Bright and McMahon are asking lawmakers to sign a letter to Obama asking him to include the tax cuts in his budget plans for 2010.
“Allowing these tax rates to expire during this recession runs the risk of curtailing economic expansion just when it begins to pick up and could lead to a ‘double dip’ recession,” says the letter to Obama.
In the letter to the president, the members say the Bush tax cuts should not be allowed to expire. That would put them in opposition to Obama’s stated plan of letting some of the tax cuts meant for the wealthy to expire while keeping breaks in place for the poor and middle class, consistent with his campaign pledge of not raising taxes for anyone making less than $250,000 a year.
In a related development, former Tennessee Democratic Party Congressman Harold Ford, now residing in the Empire State, tells the Wall Street Journal:
“First we need to cut taxes for businesses in the country, small and large,” he says. “We ought to provide a six-month exemption from the payroll tax for all firms less than five years old. We ought to extend the current capital gains and dividend tax rates through 2012. We ought to make permanent all the research and development tax credits for businesses making those investments. And we ought to lower the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25%.”
I feared that the passing of ObamaCare could be the socialist tipping point from which the America we know might never recover, so I rejoice that it appears to be dead. So sure that the Dem Donkey would exhibit mule-like stubbornness and ram it through despite the lumps Scott Brown’s Plymouth Rock left on the heads of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, that I proposed MLK-style non-violent civil disobedience to force its repeal.
But we aren’t safe yet, even if they let health reform die, because the damage from a great recession that ObamaDems won’t let We the People end for three more years, would also destroy millions of lives.
Conservatives need to drink tea from deep within Alexander Pope’s Pierian Wells and mount an offensive to seize our right to make a living on our own land, and especially with what lies under it and the seas. Want a booming recovery with good jobs and the side effect of falling energy prices?
Drill. Drill. Drill.
But the federal government bans it. Want to start or expand a business? The federal government punishes it. Want to get a loan from a bank? Why would they lend with no prospects for the profits from which the loan could be re-paid. Obama demonizes anyone that dares make a profit.
The only jobs created by the non-stimulus bill were for federal regulators and lawyers to stop business from doing business lest a rare rock get turned over and harm Mother Earth. The only jobs saved were state and local paper-pushers.
We have the right to earn a living!
Unless Harold Ford’s better idea catches on and more tax-cutting Bushies grow, there is zero chance that this recession will end, and the only way possible to make it happen is going to be up to We the People.
I propose massive MLK civil disobedience. His rights were being denied then. Ours are being denied now.
If I had an oil derrick, I would wheel in onto the Mall in D.C. one night and plan the writing of a letter from a Georgetown Jail (or from Marion Barry’s former cell downtown.
This recession is destroying lives. We can’t wait for two more election cycles to create wealth.
Martin Luther King showed us the way to defeat defiant Democrats
In the aftermath of the Scott Browning-out of the Ted Kennedy legacy in Massachusetts, we suspect further ObamaDem health care overreach and defiance of We the People that can only be turned back by Martin Luther King Jr.-style non-violent civil disobedience en mass.
[Mike DeVine Law Gamecock returns from his longest absence during our three years as Law & Politics columnist for Examiner.com. During our absence, necessitated by our orientation in our new position with an Atlanta area law firm, we missed writing our Ninth annual column for Martin Luther King Day as Haiti was destroyed, but return in time to comment contemporaneously on the Biggest Reality Mugging in recent history in the Bay State.]
As we witness President Barack Obama’s exercise of American exceptionalism in Haiti, that he spent his first year in office denying or denouncing as having been “imposed by a world order”, we celebrate another manifestation of it in the Commonwealth of Massachsetts’ rejection of ObamaCare.
The only issues remaining concerning the threat to American Liberty from the separate ObamaCare bills that passed the House and Senate late last year is whether Democrats accept the message or continue to defy the wishes of the citizens they serve.
Drawl and that’s all: The Myth of the Moderate Democrat
Last year we received conclusive proof of the decades-old myth of the moderate Democrat when the votes of all 60 were needed to ram thru 2000 lumps of coal-like pages on Christmas Eve. So I had to agree with an astute conservative Republican political observer and lawyer in Gwinnett County who suspects that the Jack Asses will more resemble their mule cousins when it comes to stubbornness in altering behavior after sharp slaps on the head.
While we hear many elected Democratic Party voices suggesting that ObamaCare is dead, we are reminded of all the moderate braying of Democrat drawls since the 1960s that never translated into votes that defied their supposed more liberal bosses. We suspect that Speaker Pelosi will threaten enough so-called pro-life House Democrats with their own political abortions to get a majority to pass the more pro-abortion Senate bill on the way to a Rose garden signing ceremony.
Obama v McCain
During many pre-2008-election intra-party debates inspired by our uninspiring McCain side of the GOP ticket, I argued that the only way it would be better for the conservative movement and, most importantly, America itself, for Obama to win, would be if we could prevent the passage of permanent entitlements that would never be repealed.
I was always sure that the life under super-majority ObamaDem rule, would result in Americans’ re-education in the proven-failed liberal policies abroad and at home that we experienced in the late 70s. The 2009 results in Virginia and New Jersey and writ large in the just completed Plymouth Rock drop onto Harry Reid’s head, vindicate that Cockstradamus vision as well as the Rush Limbaugh Ronaldus Magnus maxim regarding the marketability of unabashed, unapologetic conservatism regardless of region, especially when the environment is saturated with disgust for leftist overreach.
But if the ObamaDems go on and defy We the People and impose the transformation of the health care industry as public utility on America, then it will not have been worth the lesson given the history of other such huge entitlement codifications and the fecklessness of the Grand Old Party when it holds the reins of power.
We suspect that the only way the ObamaCare socialist tipping point can be turned back is by following the example of the great man whose birth we celebrated last week.
MLK vs Democrats
When a young Montgomery, Alabama pastor from Atlanta directed bus boycotts, letters from jails and marches over bridges and on Washington, D.C., he was at all times seeking to repeal unjust laws passed by defiant Democrats. He had many more allies in that struggle in the GOP of his father, Martin Luther King, Sr. and Abraham “The Great Emancipator” Lincoln, which party was created to end slavery.
King, unlike the present occupant of the White House, believed deeply in American exceptionalism, despite existing segregation laws. He knew that most all Americans were infused with the same Judeo-Christian values he preached and that they could be appealed to within our system.
King’s dream that one day little black boys would hold hands with little white boys while hearing freedom ring from the Stone Mountain of Georgia came true. Our exceptionalism was proven long before the First Lady first discovered some of it in votes for her husband in 2007.
We could soon face a dire circumstance of a Liberty defying law directed at our very lives in the end of the protection of the unalienable right to pursue happiness via health care. We cannot claim taxation without representation as could King and those at the first Boston Tea Party. But that does not diminish the fact of the denial of liberty just as great.
Some astute political observers fear that there could be riots in the streets should the Democrats ram the ObamaCare bill into law in this environment. Violence must be opposed, but we should not settle merely for the prospects of future election results to pave the way for repeal.
Non-violent civil disobedience is the way
I have long advocated non-violent civil disobedience with respect to oil drilling given the 32-year moratorium on expanded drilling imposed by the Democrats. Then came the ban on Edison’s bulb. I also support the recently announced Manhattan Declaration to defy unconstitutional laws, court rulings and regulations that infringe upon speech and religious freedoms.
A massive defiance of a Health Care Bill signed by President Obama may well be the only way to ensure repeal and the restoration of the Liberty that our forefathers, including MLK, fought and died for.
America should be proud of the aid we are sending to Haiti, and especially some of the well-to-do orthopedic surgeons donating their valuable time to make sure those with simple broken bones in Port-au-Prince don’t get added to the earthquake death toll.
But doctors alone can’t repair an America broken by Big Goverment. A defiant Congress can only be tamed by a defiant people.
Economics 101
Many liberals simply don’t understand what creates the wealth that makes it possible for us to help the Haiti’s of the world. They take it for granted that the wealth created due to the economic liberty and private property rights the founders devised, will remain no matter what burdens they put on doctors or investors.
The health care bill would be the final blow to an economy already stifled by Fannie Mae-like intrusions into the market.
The moral heart of capitalism and conservative epiphanies
Lastly, let me address the false allegation of some on the left, that it would be “heartless” not to pass one of the two bills on the table or a compromise thereof, as I heard yesterday in person.
Americans have never been “heartless”, and the existing state of health care is nothing if not a huge heart with the requirement that no one be turned away from emergency rooms receiving federal aid.
The Republican Party has held all the power in D.C. several times since FDR and never have they sought to end nor substantially reduce the Reagan endorsed “safety net for the truly needy” in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid or food stamps.
Once can argue that a heart-filled person should seek some repeals, but by the Democrats’ own standards, the GOP passes “heart” muster.
Doing “nothing”, then, would not be heartless, nor does a failure to pass ObamaCare prevent doing something in the future that improves the status quo.
I switched parties in large part due to my heart for people, especially the poor, and the results of the policies of Democrats vs the policies of the GOP, clearly vindicate my elephantine memory of a heartless Democratic Party when it came to victim-defendants trapped in welfare or millions suffering under the Soviet Union.
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