Docs 4 Patient Care is a group of doctors who are fighting fiercely to repeal Obamacare, or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). For months now, they have been quietly waging war against socialized medicine without much help or recognition. However, on July 27th, Dr. Mark Neerhof (a member of Doctors 4 Patient Care) sparred with Dr. Arnold Widen (a doctor in favor of Obamacare) in a no holds barred debate on a Chicago radio station that was moderated by Milton Rosenberg.
Two years ago, poultry’s greatest oracle saw 2008’s Summer of $4.00 /gallon gasoline as the beginning of the end of this affluent society’s fetish with faux man-made global warming-moral preening. Getting to work and buying food trumped feel-good, paganistic gaia worship.
Now, twenty years after a generation was indoctrinated by Al Gore and two years into the Great Recession, comes this:
By a 55% to 32% margin, most voters continue to believe finding new sources of energy is more important than reducing the amount of energy Americans now consume. Support for finding new sources of energy has been this high or higher for months.
Complete Cockstradamus-confirming Rassmussen poll results here and previous energy and environmental prognostications here.
Too bad we have a representation without consideration regime instead of a government that reflects the wishes of We the People. I think the disconnect portends a future affirmation of a long-running Cockstradamus forecast of civil disobedience before any GOP super-majorities could reverse the ObamaDem socialism and now Mark Levin agrees.
Braves-Gamecock
Early last Spring when future Braves Hall-of-Famers, John Smoltz and Tom Glavine were struggling with facing up to the end of their careers, Cockstradamus predicted that both would either be Braves broadcasters or employed as coaches or in the front office by the Atlanta Braves.
Both are in the broadcast booth this year and Smoltz is arguably the most entertaining color commentator ever.
The year of the Chicken is coming
When will civil disobdience start? 2011? Not sure, but I am confident that next year will see a significant increase in the number of households that keep and raise chickens for food, thanks to the refusal of ObamaDems to allow us to bail ourselves out of this deep recession in which the under-employment rate rivals that of the bulk of the years of the Great Depression at upwards of 18% and higher.
The chicken is a very efficient recession-blunter what with the eggs, breasts, thighs, wings, alarm clock and strong male role model.
Cock-a-doodle-do, and yes, the only debate left about Tiger Woods is by how many strokes will he win this weekend’s Masters.
Cockstradamus says by 2 strokes over Lee Westwood.
Since the first unveiling of the various interations of Democratic Party-sponsored health care reform last summer, the American people have sent unequivocal, vocal and electoral messages of their disgust and opposition to the socialist America tipping point that was the passage of the ObamaCare legislation last month.
The 21st Century tea partiers inspired to dump over-water mortgages into Lake Michigan as Obama rescued delinquent mortgagors, switched gears to protest a loss of Liberty to pursue health happiness much larger than even the liberties restricted by King George’s, that were so intolerable to the Founders and the original tea partiers in Boston Harbor in the 18th Century.
Town Hall meetings held by Democratic Party Representatives on recess after their first votes for socialized medicine before the 2009 vernal equinox loudly rang the bell of Liberty in opposition to massive Medicare cuts bearing no relation any reform, but rather more resembling a robbery.
Then, every time the politically aroused were given a chance to register their disgust with ObamaDems in special elections, they booted the jack asses out in Virginia, New Jersey, and, most poignantly in the late Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts, where it appeared the election of Scott Brown had stopped socialised medicine in in its tracks.
Then came polls showing that the Democrats were already labeled as far left socialists in the voters minds due to their prior votes, and that they would suffer massive losses in 2010’s mid-term election no matter if they passed ObamaCare or not, especially given the deep recession that has sealed their fate in any event.
So, they defied representative democracy and imposed the personal Marxist dreams of ObamaDems on America by making the private insurance industry a public utility on the way to utter destruction; discouraging even more doctors from staying in practice, not to mention discouraging gifted students from becoming doctors in the first place; massively raising taxes on businesses small and large; saddling the states with massive unfunded Medicaid and Medicare mandates; and required, beginning in four years, that all subjects of the King by his insurance policy from his local agents, e.g. Blue Cross Blue Shield, et al…).
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi told us prior to the vote on the $2Trillion+ bill that Americans would realize how much they like the legislation, after it passes and everyone had a chance to read it!
The reading has continued, and next week, we will see the state of reading comprehension in a portion of the Sunshine State. Hopefully, the sun that didn’t shine on Pelosi’s bill before it passed will enlighten former voters Bob Wexler, far leftie Democrat (but I repeat myself, since ALL 60 Democrat senators voted for ObamaCare, and all but 34 of the 200+ Dem Representatives voted for same, but none of whom also voted against ObamaDems’ stimulus that wasn’t and currency-destroying budgets).
That’s right, the first special election after the passage of health care reform is in a previously-proven far left Democratic Party house district, much like the Ted Kennedy seat in the senate was the last vote before its passage.
So, tea partiers, irate seniors on Medicare, newly-enlightened Democrats and reliable Republicans, Do Not Be Discouraged! Get out and vote for Republican Edward Lynch to represent Florida House District 19 in Washington so that the building of the roster to repeal the blood-sucking, Dem-o-bat ObamaCare can begin!
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.
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.
Give us time to read ObamaCare bill and advise our Congressional employees and we won’t need to see Obama-promised debate on C-Span.
In 1993-4 I defended Hillary’s behind closed doors meetings to draft President Bill Clinton’s health care bill and also defended Vice President Dick Cheney’s similar meetings in 2001 with regard to energy policy.
Why? Because the best and most honest advice is often given only when one is free to speak without immediate ridicule, and, most importantly, everything Congress does has to be written down and voted on.
HillaryCare was never brought after its details were made public. Democrats filibustered Bush Administration-proposed expanded oil drilling. We also recall the loud public advice given to Bush-McCain’s illegal alien amnesty bill.
But under Obama-Reid-Pelosi filibuster-proof super-majority rule, final 2000-page amendments to bills are rushed to the floor for votes within 24 hours or less, and so the public is denied the opportunity to supervise our elected employees.
Desperate for a vehicle to stop the deaf-to-the-will-of-We-the-People ObamaDems’ insistence on a bribe-produced bill to socialize American medicine, conservatives and independents have seized upon then candidate Obama’s eight or more promises to take over the private company C-Span and force them to televise health care negotiations.
Obama also promised not to sign bills before they had first been posted on the Internet for at least 72 hours. That promise was broken with the first bill signed by the president, i.e. the non-stimulus government growthulus bill and every bill since.
Obama lies. You can tell when he is lying when you see the TelePrompter speaking.
There is nothing wrong with confidential negotiations per se. In fact, they are necessary for Presidents to receive frank and honest advice and for legislators to fashion compromises.
But when you have a deceitful Democratic Party and Messiah for a president, all of whom deem the constitution and voters to be a nuisance, then you can’t trust them to give you time to read bills that will radically change your pursuits of happiness.
How is that Hope and Change working for you Obama voters now?
This is truly unbelievable – President Obama said today: “But as I’ve said, in the long run, we can’t continue to spend as if deficits don’t have consequences; as if waste doesn’t matter; as if the hard-earned tax dollars of the American people can be treated like Monopoly money.”
When my administration walked through the door, the country faced a growing economic downturn as well as a deepening fiscal hole. Washington had passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy (producers) and an expensive new entitlement program without paying for any of it. Health care costs continued to rise, year after year. And little effort was made to cut wasteful spending. As a result, over the previous eight years, the national debt doubled — doubled. In January, the deficit stood at $1.3 trillion. And we had to make the difficult decision to add to the deficit in the short term to prevent the potential collapse of our economy.
But as I’ve said, in the long run, we can’t continue to spend as if deficits don’t have consequences; as if waste doesn’t matter; as if the hard-earned tax dollars of the American people can be treated like Monopoly money. That’s what we’ve seen time and time again. Washington has been more concerned about the next election than the next generation. It’s put off hard choices in spending bill after spending bill, budget after bloated budget.
And how many of us would still be alive, if tomorrow, we started doing everything right to restore it?
Socialist tipping point
The only true blue dawgs are Parker Griffith (D-AL) in the U.S. House of Representatives, who voted against the Stimulus, Cap and Trade and ObamaCare and who vows to vote against Nancy Pelosi as Speaker is he wins re-election in 2010; and Huckleberry Hound in the Dog House. (My apologies to the the Hound for the past use of his image to represent such a sorry lot. This will be his last appearance in columns related to that mythical creature called the moderate Democrat.)
Yesterday’s caving of Ben Nelson joining the other 59 yellow dawg Dem-o-bats on ending debate on socialized medicine, may well be the tipping point of no return from the end of the Miracle that began in 1776.
The fact is that America can not be protected from the Left is they elect Democrats to make laws, and certainly the return of the Democrats to congressional power in 2007 and to filibuster-proof super-majorities in 2009 sealed the vote ObamaCare.
The GOP can’t do as a minority, what they didn’t prevent in the majority, but let’s not delude ourselves that our failures are the proximate cause of the precipice we are falling off of.
What set the stage for American voters to put this crowd in power, especially after the Reagan Revolution?
Was it FDR and New Deal or was it the Republican majorities and Ike who acquiesced in the fact of Big Government in the 50s?
Was it LBJ and the Great Society, or was it Nixon’s expansion of same?
Was it the failure of conservatives to occupy positions in academia, the press and other cultural institutions before and after Rush Limbaugh?
Was it the puniness of Newt’s Contract with America, or was it too late by then, not to mention was it too late by the time Dubya and Delay got power?
Do enough Americans have the right stuff to save us?
When even conservative members of the armed forces won’t protect themselves from obvious dangers at Fort Hood; students instructed to draw a picture about Christmas are sent for psychiatric counseling for drawing a picture of Christ; and when even Sean hannity buys the liberal health care narrative so much that he favors forcing private insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions, I have to wonder of the political correctness and economic ignorance long ago reached a tipping among We the People, that the slouching towards Gomorrah that Robert Bork wrote of is inexorable.
McCain’s honorable friends and Coburn as the atom bomb
Laws are made in Congress, where representatives cast votes. Most members cast votes like those in their party and having the majority determines what gets votes on.
Since the 70s, the votes cast by the vast majority of Democrats have not only been wrong, but have been hostile to American values and usually in favor of policies already shown to be failures.
The Party has also been un-patriotic in foreign policy.
Yet, Republicans still call them honorable friends and most of the public views the parties as not having a dime’s worth of difference between them, which is a damnable lie?
But who can blame them when Democrats regularly accuse the GOP of being heartless towards the weak at home and warmongers abroad, while nice little Republicans shrug and suggest that their honorable friends just have a disagreement.
A friendly disagreement? I guess that what Patrick Henry had with King George? Not!
What passes for tough action now is when Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) forces a clerk to read a long bill, and then, only at the 11th hour. Couldn’t we have shut down the socialist law-making machine via refusals to grant unanimous consent before Friday and even now?
The miracle may not have been sustainable
But I have to temper my criticism of our champions in elected office when I remember that America’s past 200+ years is THE LONE Liberty miracle of the past 5000 years and that its all been damage control since Eve bit the apple.
Affluence weakens a people. Liberty brings on affluence. See the problem?
And we certainly can’t prolong the miracle when we won’t draw the obvious sharp lines between us and our opponents.
Pilgrim’s Progress
As a Christian, I have felt a tension concerning how I should economize the use of my time for God’s will. I am not of the school of thought that advocates isolation from the secular world. I am of the other school, yet, given that most Christians lived under circumstances alien to the 200+ -year mircale we call America, I wonder if it isn’t time to re-evaluate my time management?
There are only 24 hours in the day, and given the cultural rot that made the Cornhusker cave-in and Hannity’s ignorance possible, is it time for conservatives to spend more of their time addressing that culturerather than politics and, not to mention, trying to make enough money to eat?
Even with the mandate that every American buy health insurance, premium prices would skyrocket and skyrocketing premium prices would result in a demand for single-payer health care, i.e. socialized medicine
This simple fact and the fact that most Americans, including Republican elected officials, support a mandate that insurance companies not be allowed to turn down applicants due to pre-existing conditions is why ANY health care bill the ObamaDems would pass would have catastrophic consequences.
For this reason, yours truly has not joined in the excitement of the various “successes” with respect to abortion coverage in the House; and the public option and Medicare expansion in the Senate.
In fact, even if the tax increases; personal mandate; draconian Medicare cuts and any other onerous provisions are dropped and all that remains is a one-page bill mandating coverage of pre-existing conditions, it must be opposed with all of the parliamentary tactics available to Senator Tom Coburn and others with courage.
Economic ignorance, political cowardice a threat to American prosperity
The problem is that the public is so ignorant of economics that it would be politically risky even for conservative Republicans to oppose such a bill.
Risk assessment is at the heart of what makes insurance a viable industry.
If they have to sign up anyone that applies with little or no price differential (and arguably even with large price differentials), then eventually, their premium receipts will not cover treatment payouts.
Don’t get me wrong, I want all Americans to have access to health care in places other than emergency rooms. I favor a safety net for the truly needy, but ObamaDems would ensure that most Americans are truly needy and have the safety net engulf the private economy that pays for everything government does.
Universal health coverage and lower costs can be achieved
There is a way to achieve universal coverage without any of the provisions mentioned above, and that is for Congress to end the District of Columbia and 50 state monopolies that keep premium rates artificially high. This economic fact is fundamental and is why the interstate commerce clause was made a part of Article I of the Constitution.
If there were truly a nationwide free market in private health insurance, the number of individuals owning satisfactory coverage would more resemble the number with cell phones.
Federal tort reform with respect to medical malpractice suits would also be very helpful in lowering premiums as well, both with respect to limiting payouts, but even more importantly, in arresting the relative decline of the supply of physicians able to make a decent living while paying confiscatory rates.
Basic economics again: Lowering the supply of doctors makes the price go up!
Then, a health care reform plan that dealt with those remaining who could not afford insurance would be viable, as the number would be exponentially lower.
Courage required
No Republican dares say this though? I haven’t heard one Republican say this. Is that because it is easier to attack the other provisions? I suspect, but the day may well be coming when about all that is left is a mandate for pre-existing condition coverage, and if that happens I suspect many Republicans will jump on board and lose the issue forever.
To be followed sooner than you might expect by the loss of what used to be These United States as we knew it.
We will soon discover if We the People lost this debate when ObamaDems got a 60-vote senate, as it appears that many Democrats have decided that they are willing to defy the American people by passing this monstrosity, so dire are their 2010 prospects any way given the great recession and their socialist admissions in this process even if all of them aren’t enacted.
Cap-and-tax high energy tax attack on the poor and middle class is dead
Finally, a so-called Blue (moderate) Dawg Democrat stands up to the Hectorer-in-Chief, and conservatives could do a lot worse than for that democrat to be the Scots-Irish author of Born Fighting who famously tried to start a fight with the former occupant of the White House.
One of the most passionate and enduring dreams of President Barack Hussein Obama, directly consistent with the Marxist dreams of his Kenyan father, is that Americans learn a lesson from high energy prices even if it bankrupts the coal industry.
But the lesson Americans learned when gasoline reached $4/gallon two summers ago is that man-made global warming aka climate change was a fetish of an affluent society, a relic of the pre-Great Recession salad days.
The fact that ObamaDems’ cap-and-tax attack on the poor and middle class bill has been stalled for months concentrates the mind. Obama’s pending pilgrimage to the climate change revival required that the Nobel Messiah perform a miracle before his Transfiguration, so he had his EPA Gabriel issue a threat to his congressional subjects.
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) sent a letter to the president late last week warning Obama against agreeing to any binding climate change agreement during a conference in Copenhagen, Denmark this month.
“I would like to express my concern regarding reports that the Administration may believe it has the unilateral power to commit the government of the United States to certain standards that may be agreed upon at the upcoming [conference],” Webb wrote to Obama.
“Although details have not been made available, recent statements by Special Envoy on Climate Change Todd Stern indicate that negotiators may be intending to commit the United States to a nationwide emission reduction program,” Webb added. “As you well know from your time in the Senate, only specific legislation agreed upon in the Congress, or a treaty ratified by the Senate, could actually create such a commitment on behalf of our country.”
It appears that even if the pagan religion were true, Webb long ago decided that it would not justify the draconian measures desired by the Left, as evidenced by his appropriately puny bill to continue the Bush Administration research in wind and solar power.
But after the climategate emails showing the scientific data was fraudulent, all you hear now are death rattles.
There will be no new taxes on energy, just as Cockstradamus crowed two years ago.
Not everyone is pleased with the coming New Carbon-Free International Order. When the Obama administration signaled (in a gesture to Copenhagen) a U.S. commitment to major cuts in carbon emissions, Democratic Sen. Jim Webb wrote the president protesting that he lacks the authority to do so unilaterally. That requires congressional concurrence by legislation or treaty.
With the Senate blocking President Obama’s cap-and-trade carbon legislation, the EPA coup d’etat served as the administration’s loud response to Webb: The hell we can’t. With this EPA “endangerment” finding, we can do as we wish with carbon. Either the Senate passes cap-and-trade, or the EPA will impose even more draconian measures: all cap, no trade.
Thank you for the clarity on this issue Senator Webb.
Now, how about Virginia tobacco?
Just as the EPA threat is based on a non-Congressionally approved, unilateral executive overreach “finding” that what humans breathe out is an “endangerment” to human health, so is the recent action by the FDA to regulate tobacco, but to only apply the law to “clove” and other flavored cigarettes as dangerous to children.
But just as the EPA can’t selectively apply its regulations only to big business, the FDA can’t just protect children. Adults matter too! The problem is that everyone knows CO2 is not a health hazard. Kim Strassel points out the legal problem:
But the EPA’s legal vulnerabilities go beyond that. The agency derives its authority to regulate pollutants from the Clean Air Act. To use that law to regulate greenhouse gases, the EPA has to prove those gases are harmful to human health (thus, the endangerment finding). Put another way, it must provide “science” showing that a slightly warmer earth will cause Americans injury or death. Given that most climate scientists admit that a warmer earth could provide “net benefits” to the West, this is a tall order.
Then there are the rules stemming from the finding. Not wanting to take on the political nightmare of regulating every American lawn mower, the EPA has produced a “tailoring rule” that it says allows it to focus solely on large greenhouse gas emitters. Yet the Clean Air Act—authored by Congress—clearly directs the EPA to also regulate small emitters.
The laws being passed by this ObamaDem Congress are disastrous enough (non-stimulus, $1.8T budget deficit, etc).The Republic can’t stand Napoleonic edicts and this conservative Republican is glad that at least one Democrat is willing to stand up for the separation of powers to protect We the People from the ideological leftist nut who garnered the necessary electoral votes to appoint 911-truthers and Maoists to the executive branch.
I suspect that Webb won’t be getting an invitation to White house parties given his Copenhagen executive overreach warning epistle, and we suspect that Obama won’t be making a get tough with John Conyers-type phone call to Webb as well.
The Secret Service’s diligence on party-crashers just got a priority alert. The problem is though, that the people who have invitations to White House parties and who occupy the offices are the danger, not tabloid moguls.
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