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.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Originally published @ Examiner.com, where all verification links may be accessed.
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
Justice Clarence Thomas weighed in as well, on the kinship of pitchfork weilders:
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.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Originally published @ Examiner.com, where all verification links may be accessed.
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
Colts 32, Saints 22
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Originally published @ Examiner.com, where all verification links may be accessed.
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