The great thing about passing legislation by the pound is, foes don't have time to find the bad meat hidden inside.

Take the Obamacare 2000-page turkey, and its 400-page Reid amendment, now being rammed through the Senate with a Christmas eve deadline.  Democrats promised to eliminate the part that sets up a "public option", and they did.  But they left in other language, supposedly intended to help people pay for health insurance, that would lead to the same socialist option result.

Here's how it works --

All the Democrats' various "health reform" bills would require nearly all Americans to have health insurance.  If their employer doesn't provide it, they have to buy insurance -- and pay a lot more than it cost before Obamacare (because they'll be subsidizing millions of the previously uninsured.)  A couple earning a total $40,000 would have to shell out $2,000, and a pair making $80,000 cough up $8,000 a year.  Government subsidies would kick in after that, but health insurance still would be a major burden on young families.

And don't even think about not paying.  You could get hit with a hefty fine, and if you still don't play ball, it could be jail time.

Fortunately, the kindly Democrats pushing these punitive measures have provided a way out.  Just pay the Feds a $750 fine, and you don't have to buy health insurance.  And don't worry about getting sick.  Remember, the bill prohibits insurance companies from turning you away, even for pre-conditions, and they can't charge you more than if you were healthy.  Just sign-up when you get the sniffles.  Or need a $100,000 cancer operation.

Wow!  Why would anyone pay thousands for health insurance, when you can get the same protection for just 63 bucks a month?  That's just the point -- hardly anybody will.  They'll go for the $63 option.  Soon, even employers will "get it".  They'll scrap insurance for workers, increase their pay by $63, and everyone's home free.  Thank, Democrats!

Except for one thing -- the insurance companies were counting on those whopping new monthly premium payments to stay in business.  As people opt out by the millions, insurers will have to increase premiums dramatically.  But that will only force the last holdouts to drop policies.  Eventually, the private insurance companies will have to fold.  Carrying the full cost, Obamacare will go bankrupt and stop paying for health care.

Knowing all this, why would Democrats set up a choice of a $63 monthly fine, versus up to $660 monthly insurance premiums?  That's where the secret kicker comes in.  With insurance dried-up and the government busted, everyone would be paying 100% for their own medical care and angrily demanding a fix.  Fortuitously, Democrats would have the perfect solution, drafted and ready -- a "public (Socialist) option"!  

So, as the voters clamor for financial protection, the Obama Administration will push its long-delayed but fervently-desired plan through an enthusiastic Congress.  The near-instant approval will make previous legislative rush-jobs seem glacial.  Voila!  The government will have its "single option" socialized medicine program, and the folks will have their health care back, with just a few blemishes such as long lines, treatment delays, rationing and death-panels.  And, of course, higher taxes.  There may be a few murmurs of concern, but when did the Feds ever repeal an existing "benefit" like Obamacare?

Who knows what other holes are in the Christmas stocking Democratic lawmakers are so anxious to fill for us?  That's their plan -- we won't find out until it's too late, and a grinning Obama stages a health reform bill signing as blossoms peek in the White House rose garden.  But even roses have thorns.  And, America burns.




 

President Obama has spent half a year frantically trying to take over America's health care system.  He's worked relentlessly for massive new spending schemes -- a stimulus plan so pork-laden it "oinks", energy-sucking Tax & Trade, keeping the sky from falling, etc.

But he's done little to create jobs.  Last week, as he returned from a failed "just say no to climate change" junket, Obama rode in his carbon-spewing jet rather than a reindeer-drawn sleigh.  He didn't don a Santa suit, or carry a pack of goodies for broke and desperate out-of-work Americans.  He probably figured he didn't have to -- experts predicted new unemployment claims would decline to 465,000 for the week.

Instead, claims increased by 7,000 to 480,000, casting into doubt the Administration's rosy forecasts of quick economic recovery.  And gloom increased with a record-breaking collapse of the Messiah's public approval ratings, once reverential but now in the dank 40's.  Suddenly, trends are the reverse of what Obama needs for his socialist agenda to succeed -- unemployment up, polls down.  Is the dream over, so suddenly?

The chief economist at Standard & Poor's in New York predicted unemployment will rise until the middle of 2010 and peak at about 10.5 percent.  Then it will decline slowly and end that year at 10 percent, where it is now.  But is this outlook too glum?  S&P is one of the firms that doled "A" ratings to sub-prime mortgage-tainted securities which tanked last year and contributed to the economy's woes, so they're not exactly pessimists.  Things could get worse for jobless Americans than the President's touters expect.

Maybe Obama has something in his bag of tricks to at least make it a hopeful Christmas.  A "jobs" bill slowly making its way through Congress would give small businesses a one-year tax break, but few are going to hire new workers when taxes go back up in a year.  There's also more spending on "shovel ready" construction projects.  Isn't that what was falsely promised in the $787 Billion economic stimulus bill, which has created almost no proven new jobs?  But wait!  There's yet another extension of unemployment benefits.  At least ex-workers, some now living permanently on Federal handouts, may be helped.     

Sadly, there's little reason to expect jingles on roof-tops, and Saint Nick arriving with jobs crafted by government elves, this Yuletide.  Business owners who customarily lead us out of recession by hiring, are watching and waiting this time.  They're literally frozen in fear of enormous tax increases, mummifying regulations, and further economic downturn if anything favored by Obama gets enacted into law.  Even doing nothing, and letting Bush income tax cuts expire because they may help the despised "rich", will hurt jobs.  The depressing uncertainty won't be relieved until mid-2010 at the earliest, when Congress either finishes work on the worst Obama turkeys or gives up and goes home.

Plus, if businesses wanted to expand, they'd have a tough time borrowing money.  What kind of job growth would you expect from an Administration which claims it's trying to ease tight credit on business loans, but quietly lends banks money at nearly zero interest and lets them use it to buy government bonds paying a safe and profitable 3 percent?  If you were a bank, would you lend to risky ventures that may fail, or Uncle Sam?  Obama has to hog bank funds, because China's top bank official warned it can't keep financing our debt.  The Democratic spending spree which began on inauguration day continues.

Confidence in the nation's future has been dealt a major blow by the Senate's disgusting performance on the Obamacare health takeover.  It's been a political kabuki theater with inept actors like Sen. Ben Nelson, Nebraska waverer, playing the part of a conservative Democrat (as if there is such a thing.)  After "holding out" for principle on abortion and other issues, he predictably caved and handed over his vote for a $45 billion gift for his state.  That may be wiped out in a Senate-House conference along with other special treatment for solons.  The abortion "compromise" Nelson agreed to was denounced by a House abortion foe as subsidizing health insurers which pay for the procedure.

While withholding work from "bad" Americans, Obama tried to buy-off "good" foreign nations in Copenhagen the same way votes are now purchased in Congress with taxpayer funds.  His elf, Hillary Clinton, stuffed a $100 Billion-a-year present, starting in 2019, in the stocking of poor nations.  They snubbed it as too meager, even after Saint Barack deployed the only weapon he ever uses, stentorian words.  Apparently, the Third Worlders know a Grinch when they see him.  And, America burns.    

In Copenhagen, as environuts rioted in the streets, world ruling class leaders repealed the scientific method, flushing civilization back hundreds of years to an age when the earth was deemed flat by state-decreed consensus.  The goal: government-controlled science, so wealth can be taken from those who earned it and given to those who want it.

In Washington, D.C., as the nation's citizens petitioned peacefully against radical change, Senate Democratic militants forcibly repealed legislative rules and plunged democracy back hundreds of years to an age when kings ruled the people with an iron fist.  The goal: government-controlled medicine, so health care can be taken from seniors who need it and given to people who vote for Democrats.

While man-made global warming/cooling/whatever is claimed as consensus fact by the community of scientist/priests which spawned the complex theory of enriching lies, the only100% certain reality is they can't prove it.  That's because they mysteriously destroyed the irreplaceable baseline data on which their claims are founded.  

As even high school students know, the scientific method requires that research "proving" validity of a new hypothesis must be replicable by others using the same data -- which is impossible now since the key part conveniently has vanished.  Climategate reveals the priests have fed garbage into their secrecy-shrouded computers all along, forcing alarmist data to spew out.  But it's garbage, unusable by anyone else but allied politicians seeking mutual global lying gain -- up to $1 Billion for fact-fumbling Al Gore, model for Dem Senator lie-trainees, who may think proof refers to sipppin' whisky.

Nobody knows what's fueling Harry "Hold-'em" Reid's (D-NV) dogged quest for the 60-vote Obamacare grail, but he went Chicago-style ballistic this week to halt reading aloud of a 700-page amendment to the 2,000-page health care takeover bill, demanded by a GOP Senator in accordance with Senate rules.  That delaying tactic threatened passage of the bill by Christmas.  Some present -- a death-sentence for millions of senior citizens whose lives depend on Medicare, a program Reid wants to gut by $570 billion.

Reid, who kept secret his own 1,000 pages of change, had given the supposedly non-partisan Budget Office a request they couldn't refuse, thereby eliciting a favorable cost estimate for the committee version of his legislation so it could be brought before the Senate.  Soon they took up a massive amendment.  There was one problem -- Rule XV, paragraph 1, required it to be read aloud, but this could be waived by unanimous consent.  

Surprise! A Republican said No.  Thus, under the rule, "the amendment must be read and further interruptions are not in order. . .(U)nanimous consent is required to call off the reading."  But as clerks droned on a 17-hour task, the majority leader's fuming gave way to further gangland tactics.  He seemingly "worked with" the non-political Parliamentarian, a rules-interpreting staffer whose job he controls, to wrest an apparent violation of the tenet.  The amendment was withdrawn by the presiding Dem Senator, and the bill rushed forward.  By week's end, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) seemed to be the last contender for 60th vote celebrity.  He was aided by a reported White House threat, possibly leaked by his office, that Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska would be closed if he didn't play ball.  The dubious hope: by yielding he saved 1,500 jobs, and voters would forgive him in 2010.
                   
Probably the worst performance was staged by the Senate's other Nelson, Bill (D-FL).  Arguably the dumbest solon, he enraged hundreds of thousands of Sunshine State seniors by strongly supporting the death bill.  To win them over, he cooked up a corrupt deal like those he's used to on Capitol Hill.  His amendment grandfathered current Medicare Advantage members in Florida from losing their coverage when the Obamacare mess hits the fan.  Great.  Dad, 65, will get health care but Mom, 60, won't.  Thanks Bill!

Overall, with all Dems falling meekly into line after minor revisions but the framework for government takeover completely intact, socialized medicine is closer than ever.  A future Congress or the Supreme Court can restore the deleted sections at their leisure.

What's amazing is, by all the infighting, Dems have been able to obscure their plan's giant financing defect -- during years 1-10, ten years of heavy new taxes and fees for every American, plus the half-trillion in Medicare cuts, will flow into government coffers but the new health care itself will be provided for only seven years.  This proves it takes ten years of income to pay for seven years of Obamacare.  What happens in years 11-20, when only one year of income is available for each year of care?  The budget deficit will soar.  Draconian rationing, not just for surviving seniors but all Americans, will ensue.      
   
But, of course, twenty years from now perpetrators of the lethal swindle will be long gone and untraceable.  Obama plans to take office for his second term on Jan. 20, 2013, three weeks after his disastrous health care provisions kick-in.  It's fortuitous, but well-planned, timing.  Any problems will be blamed on George W. Bush.  After leaving office at the end of his term or by impeachment, Obama may seek refuge and better health abroad.

One bright spot, in the Dems' view -- maybe enough shortening of U.S. life-spans will solve the climate change problem.  Less dangerous breathing, you know.  Oh, forgot -- that's an even bigger hoax.  And America burns.

Is President Obama a terrorist?  PLUS - the dumbest Supreme Court decision ever!

America's economy plunged by several trillion dollars after the 9/11/01 attacks.  The travel industry dried up because people were afraid to fly.  Investments in housing, stocks, and small business expansion were deferred for years.  Millions of jobs were lost in the resulting ripple effect.  All because of fear of what could happen in the future.

Today, the national debt is expanding by several trillion dollars.  Investments in housing, stocks, and small business expansion have been deferred.  Millions of jobs have been lost in the resulting ripple effect.  All because of fear of what could happen in the future.

It looks a lot like there's been a new terrorist attack.  And there has, in a way.  But not by foreign jihadists -- the new assault is by dogma-led militants within.  It's the giant "tax-and-spend" surge launched by President Obama and Democratic extremists in Congress.   

Like its 9/11 counterpart, the domestic attack was prepared in secrecy and deception.  In his campaign, Obama promised "hope and change" without specifying what he actually had in mind -- fanatical bludgeoning of the United States into a socialist/fascist tyranny.  When a 60th Senate seat was gained by the Democrats' standard tactic of voter fraud, the President had the ordnance needed to carry out his War on America.

The Democrats' terror crusade employs three weapons of mass destruction --

HIJACKED MISSILE DECREES.  Explosive-laden Executive Orders and regulations hit takeover targets ranging from the U.S. automobile industry, major banks and insurers to Wall Street empires, student loan lenders and high-paid business execs.  Typically, an ideology-driven "czar" with unlimited power is appointed to pillage the victims.        

IMPROVISED LEGISLATIVE DEVICES.  Amateurish, unread, and enacted without regard to who'll be damaged, blockbuster bills include "stimulus" waste, "Cap & Trade" energy taxes, and socialized medicine.  The last bill employs faked Budget Office data to hide a $2.5 trillion debt increase, and fuzzed-up language to mask death panels for seniors and jail terms for recalcitrant Yuppies.  It's being planted by politically suicidal Dem Senators hoping for 40 years in elective heaven for their party, once everyone in America must come to them begging for life.  The plan: quibbling by "moderates" over abortion and socialist doctor care will be papered-over, and all 60 Democrats will vote "aye".      

GLOBAL LYING.  With his "Cap & Trade" tax mired in Congress, Obama has sought idolization among internationalists by joining their "climate change" hoax scheme.  Its goal is to shovel billions in capitalist nations' wealth to impoverished despots.  Much  U.S. sovereignty will be transferred to non-elected European socialists, who will dictate updates in our laws.  With massive debt owed to foreign nations, compliance is assured.
As America reels under terrorist-like assault, Obama's administrative "finding" that the air we breathe is a dangerous "greenhouse gas" may deliver the coup de grâce.  Politically timed to coincide with climate hoaxers' carbon-spewing convention in Denmark, and even more devastating than energy taxes, this mother of all incendiaries could enable faceless Obamacrats to wipe-out entire industries overnight with the stroke of a pen.  

The President's finding took advantage of  the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 Massachusetts v. EPA decision of April 2, 2007, in which Justices Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer signaled their eagerness to be welcomed at future liberal soirees.  They swallowed whole "the enormity of the potential consequences associated with man-made climate change," and loftily assumed their superior intellect could defeat the threat.

Environmentalists, who had futilely sought EPA regulation of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse gas" emissions from new motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act, brought the case.  Because of global warming, they said, "(R)ising  seas have already begun to swallow Massachusetts' coastal land."  The Court, which later refused to hear voters challenging Obama's presidential eligibility, tortuously granted standing to sue.  It then returned the issue to a lower court which had rejected such notions as unproven, making clear their expectation of a judicial blast they could blame on someone else.

It didn't matter that no proof had been offered the Bay State was about to become a bay.  Nor, for that matter, that "global warming" actually exists, much less that it's caused by human activity.  The Gaseous Five simply declared "The harms associated with global warming are serious and well-recognized. . .According to the climate scientist Michael MacCracken, 'qualified scientific experts involved in climate change research' have reached a 'strong consensus' that global warming threatens (among other things) a precipitate rise in sea levels by the end of the century. . ."

MacCracken was chief scientist at the Climate Institute, whose boss, John C. Topping, Jr., hailed Stevens' handiwork as "an opinion that in its brilliance rivals John Marshall's opinion in Marbury v. Madison," (in which the Court granted itself the right of judicial review over Federal statutes.)  Moreover, he waxed, "Perhaps the last time a single scientist was as pivotal in the outcome of a major Court decision was Dr. Kenneth Clark whose work on children's response to dolls played a key role in the Brown v. Board of Education decision" (which desegregated public schools.)

So, the Court pretty much relied on the word of one expert that global warming is settled science, because a consensus exists.  Huh?  Scientific fact is determined by a vote, not proven truth?   Did the justices know the earth has been cooling all this century?  That the "consensus" is mostly among Federal grant recipients and politicians (e.g., Al Gore), and disputed by hundreds of qualified independent scientists?  Nope.  All evidence they didn't want to hear was simply swept aside in the rush to exercise their superior judgment.   
Now comes the kicker: all those "scientific facts" relied on by the Court have been cast into doubt by ClimateGate emails proving manipulation of data by key scientists.  The messages reflect a hostile division between "the climate research community" elitists supporting the climate change theory and excluded "skeptics" who don't.  Why is this significant?  When people who disagree use slurs to refer to the other side, it means they consider themselves at war.  And in combat, the object is to win, no matter what it takes.  Data massaging and other unscrupulous tactics may then become weapons to win the opinion battle, a "noble" goal. "It takes a community to maintain a hoax."

Unfortunately, the court's darling, MacCracken, seemingly has aligned with the theorists.  On Jan. 3, 2009, he emailed Phil Jones, head of the U.K.'s Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and a chief Community organizer, touting his idea that cooling sulfate (SO2) emissions could help counteract warming caused by carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.  "I have even started suggesting that the least expensive and quickest geo-engineering  approach to global warming would be to enhance the sulfate" in the atmosphere, MacCracken said.  The SO2 could be emitted by high smokestacks, and drift over the ocean where it would mix with and neutralize CO2 warming.

Jones, who has stepped aside while the university investigates ClimateGate, apparently didn't do much to support MacCracken's idea.  It might lend support to the enemy.   But, MacCracken warned, "In any case, if the sulfate hypothesis is right, then your prediction of warming might end up being wrong. I think we have been too readily explaining the slow changes over past decade as a result of variability -- that explanation is wearing thin. I would just suggest, as a backup to your prediction, that you also do some checking on the sulfate issue, just so you might have a quantified explanation in case the prediction is wrong. Otherwise, the Skeptics will be all over us -- the world is really cooling, the models are no good, etc. And all this just as the US is about ready to get serious on the issue."  Translation: we need to win the war, even if we're wrong about global warming.

An indicator of how long MacCracken has been cooperating with the ClimateGate crowd is a May 6, 1999, email from Michael Mann to Phil Jones.  "I've been trying to help Mike MacCracken and company behind the scenes.  We all know what happens when a U.S. scientist becomes a thorn in the side of big business," Mann wrote.  Whatever it takes.

On March 8, 2003, Mann emailed Jones, with a copy to MacCracken, complaining about an article published in "Climate Research", a scientific journal.  "The skeptics appear to have staged a coup. . .In fact, Mike MacCracken first pointed out this article to me.  I told Mike that I believed our only choice was to ignore this paper. . .I think we have to stop considering 'Climate Research' as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal.  Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal."  Control over intelligence: a key to winning the battle.

If the Supreme Court had integrity, it would re-visit the Massachusetts decision.  But it may have joined the Community, whose embattled members now must act as skeptics (of the email volley) themselves.  In his flawed opinion, the enthralled Stevens couldn't restrain himself from rhapsodizing about MacCracken's genius.  "(His) 2004 affidavit -- drafted more than a year in advance of Hurricane Katrina -- was eerily prescient.  Immediately after discussing the 'particular concern' that climate change might cause an 'increase in the wind speed and peak rate of precipitation of major tropical cyclones (i.e., hurricanes and typhoons),' MacCracken noted that '[s]oil compaction, sea level rise and recurrent storms are destroying approximately 20–30 square miles of Louisiana wetlands each year. These wetlands serve as a "shock absorber" for storm surges that could inundate New Orleans, significantly enhancing the risk to a major urban population.'"

Wow!  MacCracken nailed it!  But, uh, did anyone notice Louisiana hasn't been hit by a major hurricane since Katrina?  In four years?  While learning the pitfalls of Community activism, Kennedy & Krewe better keep their day job.  Oh.  Activism is their day job.     

While the Court shuns its duty, the nation is frozen in fear of what the rogue government might do to us next.  Small businesses won't hire until they're confident they won't be taxed and regulated out of existence.  Banks won't lend and people won't buy or invest.  No terrorist attack could do more harm.  But, with blinders-clad Democrats at work in their Washington cocoon, seeking to destroy the capitalist enemy at any cost, the U.S. is pushed ever closer to the brink of oblivion.  Is it worth all this to appease a few "pimple and pot set" fanatics who comprise the party's base?  Apparently the Dems think so.  And America burns.   

For a party that was deemed nearly extinct just a few months ago, Republicans look good in next year’s elections.  They’re ahead in the polls, and Democrats seem hell-bent on political suicide by adoption of Federalized health care over massive public opposition.  

But Dems don’t usually go down this easily.  Do they have a “secret strategy”?  Yes, and the GOP must develop its own counter-plan, a new “Prescription for America”, as an antidote to the Democrat-prescribed government takeover.

Let’s assume the worst happens -- Congress passes, and Obama signs, the socialized medicine bill of “Noose’n Nan” Pelosi and “Hangin’ Harry” Reid, which dooms seniors and makes jail-bait out of penurious Yuppies.

Jubilant Democrats will celebrate “victory in a fifty-year fight” and invest in casket-making firms to hedge against hyper-inflation induced by their spending spree.  Of course, some party faithful who voted for the hated legislation may be defeated in 2010, but cabinet or diplomatic posts can be opened, or other sinecures found, for them.  

Cannibalization of their own will pay off in the long run, Donk Wonks believe, once the health of the entire U.S. population is under Federal government control.  Sure, they’ll give up a few Congressional seats now, but be in their glory later when voter blocs must come to them for health care.  They'll have life-or-death control.  Politicians, presumably Republicans, who oppose the new health care dictat will be swept aside.   A fifty-year Democratic reign will ensue.

Dems are right, voters will turn on lawmakers who try to cut Federal health care benefits.  But they’re forgetting one thing -- Medicare is an existing program.  And Democrats are the ones cutting it.  The last time they did this, they got their clock cleaned.

In 1988, the Democratic House, led by Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL),  passed the “Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act” by 328 to 72.  Apparently part of the party’s fifty-year plot, the measure promised to expand coverage and benefits -- but it was financed by a surcharge on seniors’ existing Medicare benefits.  

Like the current health atrocity, the bill was backed by the AARP, a longtime de-facto front-group for Democrats.  But word of the onerous cost gradually spread.  A year later, Rostenkowski had to flee from a crowd of angry, sign-waving seniors banging on his stopped car.  Some 16 months after passage, the law was repealed by a vote of 360 to 66.  Maybe because he was disillusioned, Rosty let his ethics lapse, and wound up in prison.  Wouldn’t it be justice if “Hangin’ Harry” and “Noose’n Nan” were involuntarily retired and jailed for refusing to buy health insurance, before their handiwork got repealed?

Today, with seniors not only aware of the “death panel” proposals but demanding advance text publication on the internet, their retribution will be stronger and swifter.  They’ll be joined by their kids, many of whom have opted not to buy expensive health insurance but are learning they’ll be forced to under Obamacare.  Since they’re healthy, their payments will subsidize insurance for others who aren’t.  Maybe illegal aliens?    

Younger Americans are also discovering, if they don’t shell-out thousands for health insurance, or pay a big penalty, they can be jailed.  So much for more “choice”.   Bottom line: voter retaliation next year is apt to be far stronger than delusional Dems envision.  The way is open for the GOP to take over the House, defeat many Democratic Senators seeking re-election (including Reid), and repeal Obamacare.  But since the tide has turned on a national issue, Republicans need a national victory plan -- something like former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America” -- to take full advantage.

Political observers may recall that Newt’s Contract was promulgated just six weeks before the 1994 Congressional election, the first mid-termer of President Bill Clinton’s Administration.  Signed by all but two Republican House members and all of the party's non-incumbent Congressional candidates, it pledged votes on ten issues with broad popular support, including welfare reform, term limits, tougher crime laws, and a balanced budget law.  In the November elections, the GOP gained 54 seats and took control of the House for the first time since 1954.  (Their forty-year plan?)

Regrettably, translating the pledged reforms into actual law proved difficult, especially with a Democratic president in office.  Eventually, frustrated Republicans lost their unity, and with it, control of Congress.  The lesson: for 2010, draft a smaller, more attainable plan that’s more likely to be enacted into law.

While defeating the President’s 2,000-page socialized medicine scheme is presently the most urgent need, opinion polls show the issues of most concern to voters are jobs, the economy, excessive Federal spending, and the national debt.  Accordingly, the new contract should concentrate on these subjects -- plus repeal of Obamacare and other massive Democratic budget-busters like “Cap/Tax & Trade”, if enacted.

There’s plenty of time to see how much damage the Democrats do with their “ram-it-through” majority before diagnosing the GOP cure.  At this stage, a “Prescription For America” focusing on job growth, individual liberty, capitalism, and strong national defense seems a likely remedy for the Democrats’ “destroy America to save it” agenda.

Thank goodness the Senate voted to debate the health care reform bill.  For in going on the record, all 60 Democrats indelibly branded themselves as socialists, and thus easier to defeat in their next election.

Surprise!  Three Stooges who must face voters next year pulled the old coy act until shortly before balloting.  Then, like the movie comics, they straight-faced they’d allow debate, but might gag on final passage unless a single stinky provision is removed from the 2,000-page measure.  SNORT!  They all hold noses.        

Presumably the trio hoped their waffling would be taken as high principle, but, alas, it was just a dodge to grab the cameras and propagandize home-staters how really, truly conservative they are on the rare occasions when they don’t vote straight liberal.  GRIND!  One Stooge grabs another and rubs his scalp for being so dumb.

In her remarks, Sen. Mary Landrieu (LA), who initially gained her seat through vote-fraud in Democrat-owned parishes, was up to her old tricks.  She bestowed hilariously overdone praise on the sleazy antagonist, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), for crafting such a wonderful health care bill -- thus revealing she’ll vote for the odorous skunk in the end.  POW!  Another Stooge slaps her face.  (VOTER APPLAUSE)

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (AR) chimed-in with Sen. Ben Nelson (NE), who’d also nit-picked the bill.  Just take out a few offensive words, and it’ll be fine.  See how nice we are?  Despite the posturing, there’s no way any stand-up legislator would even be in the same joke room as this ungodly proposal.  Health care “reform”?  It’s nothing but old-style Democratic tax-and-spend, on a world-class scale -- with Socialism written all over it.  CRACK!  The two Stooges are head-butted by Mary.

-- It’s portrayed as magically “paid-for”, but only by musk-and-mirrors.  The period on which faked cost estimates are based includes ten years of higher taxes but only six years of the promised health benefits.  Would you want a new job where you start working now but the pay doesn’t begin until 2014?  The employer says your income over ten years will average-out sufficient, but you’ll be bankrupt long before.  So will big government, when the four-year free money bubble is all used up.

By the way, there’s no guarantee the money pot actually will be held in reserve for health care.  It’s a tempting funding source for future Dem spending schemes, with only I.O.U.’s stashed to pay the current bill’s costs.  Either way, in the second ten years if not before, one year’s taxation will have to pay for one year’s spending.  Then the Stooges’ house of cards will collapse in $2.5 trillion of debt in a decade, but the perps will be long gone.  A fresh troupe of Democratic dunces will run for Congress to “clean up the mess.”     

-- In a closed-door tax party, a coterie of Senate Democrats had a hell of a good time cooking up the malevolent brew of new tax burdens needed to finance their odorous project.  Imagine their arousal, picking favorites from a lengthy list of money-grubbing alternatives.  It was an early Christmas.  Wow!  I want this toy!  But none gave a thought to the levies’ jobs-killing impact on the American people during the Obama Recession.  Nor did any of the full 60 rabid partisans who, enthralled by the prospect of socializing a seventh of our economy, voted to continue with the hideous takeover.   

-- When the cost of their revenue enhancement grew alarmingly high, the tax-by-nighters decided to spread the wealth by increasing the amount states must pay to help finance an expanded Medicaid program.  The bill’s $300 million purchase of Sen. Landrieu’s vote mainly was to relieve Louisiana of this burden next year, so she’ll have something to brag about while seeking re-election.  But the state government, headed by a Republican governor with growing national reputation, may have to hike Medicaid taxes by $700 million in the bill’s first ten-years.  Miz Mary grins.  WHACK!  A STOOGE MOMENT.  

Upon her return in 2011, Landrieu can lead a fight to rescue states from the disastrous millstone she supported.  Wow, what a gal!  Net effect: another trillion or so increase in the national public debt, which Obama vowed wouldn’t happen.  But who’s counting?

-- To achieve its “paid-for” illusion, the bill slashes $400 million from the Medicare budget, thus insuring that millions of senior citizens will be deprived of life-saving health care as the “reform” bill’s onerous tentacles grip the medical profession.  But Democratic sponsors know such cuts have been vetoed by Congress in the past, and will be again.  Thus, there won’t be any big Medicare savings.  How to “pay-for” the monster?  What Democrats always do:  the good old reliable national debt will take another big hit.    

-- The House bill passed with only two votes to spare, as 43 “Blue Dog” Dems strived to prove they aren’t Lap Dogs for Speaker Pelosi.  In truth, practically all the crossbreeds covertly volunteered to vote for the socialist breakthrough, according to news reports.  After much political calculation and negotiation over the least vulnerable, the minimum 20 or so required to assure passage were chosen to vote "aye", and Pelosi had her bill.  Headlines trumpeted the Blues’ ethics, but the well-kept secret is, they’re socialists at heart.

As the Congressional debate continues, with increasing public opposition, it’s possible  lawmakers may give up on the health “reform” horror flick.  Indeed, this may be the ultimate plan.  The health ruse will be shorn and left on the Capitol cutting room floor, but Obama, Pelosi, Reid & Co. will point out the nation still faces severe budget problems, caused by George Bush or some other Republican villain.  So, the stand-alone tax increase provisions will be enacted, and unceremoniously signed into law by the Phantom President on some news-buried Friday night.  They’ll fund all kinds of crazy socialist fantasies dreamed up by Dems in their secret new medicinal lounge.  So much for promises of a bright new day in Washington with morally superior Democrats in charge.  Better clowns, a different kind of smoke, but just as harmful to our health.  

                              

 

When you elect amateurs to public office, expect amateur performance.

Never has this been more vividly demonstrated than by Barack Obama’s “No Decision Has Been Made” Administration.  In foreign policy, as he dumbly bows before friendly emperors and apologizes to dictators for his country’s existence, the President’s a worldwide amusement.  At home, by racking-up trillions in debt while claiming to save money, he seems more apt to destroy America than save it.

Perhaps that’s why he apparently decided to slow down and devote a little thought to governing, rather than just shower commands like an out-of-control water hose.  But instead of developing wisdom, he’s become a knee-shaking Hamlet.  Suddenly, prying a decision from him is harder than pulling a bill from Nancy Pelosi’s security closet.  Consider --

AGHANISTAN.  To send troops, or not to send troops, that is the question.  The answer, after months of political dithering while soldiers die:  “No Decision Has Been Made”.

HEALTH CARE.  The House and Senate have anguished all year over whether to include a Socialized Medicine Option in their hallmark health takeover legislation.  Beware the primaries of March.  All eyes turn to the President for leadership.  His response:  “No Decision Has Been Made”.

ENERGY TAX INCREASE.  It’s called “Cap and Trade”, which nobody understands.  It’s Al Gore’s midsummer night’s profit dream and everyone else’s nightmare.  It’s DOA in the Senate.  What to do, Mr. President?  Reply:  “No Decision Has Been Made”.

SECRET BALLOT REPEAL.  The unions wanted it, Obama promised it.  But the public objected, and now it’s lost somewhere in the wilds of Congress.  The SEIU asks, Et tu, Brute?  The President’s clear position:  “No Decision Has Been Made”.

HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE.  They’ve got partner rights, but that doesn’t grant Social Security survivor benefits.  Will they get it all?  Is a rose just as sweet by any other name?  Only Obama knows, and you guessed it:  “No Decision Has Been Made.”

IRAN POLICY.  Something is rotten in the state of Iran, like nuclear weapons, but all Obama wants to do is talk.  Will he block Israel?  “No Decision Has Been Made.”

CLOSING GITMO.  He signed an executive order, but the Bush victims are still there.  He may put them on road-greening crews.  Or buy prisons, which also would come in handy for health insurance dodgers.  Out, damned spot?  “No Decision Has Been Made.”      

SECOND STIMULUS.  When one bill fails, pass another.  But there’s method in the madness.  Stimulus Day, named for Obama, will be an annual event, when everyone hands out credit cards.  Maybe April 15?  “No Decision Has Been Made.”         

ETHICS REFORM.  His staff’s stocked with hand-picked tax cheats, socialist hustlers, czars, and other ne’er-do-wells, thus clothing Obama’s own naked villany.  What happened to open, ethical government?  “No Decision Has Been Made.”

When virtually 100% of your decisions have been wrong since taking office, it may be understandable to slow the pace.  But in the current situation, even as we give thanks a lot of junk is stalled, the reason -- incompetence -- isn’t heartening.  

The trouble is the weird notion of socialists, fascists, and other Democrats that government can solve problems.  As someone said, What fools these mortals be!  No government program has ever worked well.  Not efficiently, not cost-effectively.  In fact, bloated government is the problem.

What’s needed is a replacement team in Congress that says “no” to more government as a matter of principle, not amateur ignorance.  November 2010 can’t come soon enough!

The Obama administration’s stench increased by two pungency levels this week.

Increase # 1 was the President’s reaction to the first terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11/2001.  His White House Outfit moved swiftly -- but only to avert the political disaster of being blamed, rather than deal with the actual problem.  A strategy was hatched to depict the killing of 14 Americans by an Islamic jihad fanatic as nothing more than a soldier snapping under pressure.  Most media crawled docilely into line.

Increase # 2 arose when the public wouldn’t fall for the hoax.  As he usually does when things go badly, Obama fled the country -- leaving behind a major stink bomb to distract attention from his Ft. Hood culpability.  His skunk Attorney General hastily announced the 9/11 mastermind and associates would be brought from Gitmo to New York for trial.        

For an America numbed by numerous Obama disasters already inflicted, the breathtaking stupidity of  this new decision was a disheartening reminder that things can always get worse -- and probably will, as Obama tries to cover each failure with some new and bigger outrage.  Just when it looked like a health care calamity might be averted, Obama sets up our largest city for a years-long wave of jihadist attacks!  And in the end, the terrorists could be set loose on legal technicalities.  Were they properly Mirandized?   

How did it come to this?  We thought we elected a responsible President.  But in office, “change” became revolution as Mr. Obama spread the wealth like socialist mayonnaise on a moldy cheese sandwich.  Everyone would be rich except the rich.  Rightfully, they’ll be poor and can begin their own quest for justice.  

As he should have known, socialism doesn’t work.  Today, with skyrocketing spending, plummeting employment, a soaring national debt and tanking poll numbers, “hope” has become despair.  The President’s a blur of sound-bites and news-clips furiously patching the cracks in his promised Utopia.  Clearly, the blather signifies nothing.

Like the Ft. Hood terrorist attack, most of the President’s troubles began with failure to tell the truth.  In his campaign, he never revealed his intent to destroy America in order to save it.  He would be the fair-minded President, and end the partisan bickering in Washington.  Nobody dreamed he would employ a political majority in Congress to ram a sickening government health care takeover down the throats of opponents.  Why?  The only apparent reason is, “we want to, and we can!”

A foretaste of Obama’s debacle came when he announced the closing of Guantanamo.  Intended as a victory bone tossed to liberal dogs yapping at the table, it was just illusion.  Actually, it might take until year’s end to complete the President’s plan.  Later, it was obvious he had no plan.  He simply assumed his Outfit could do the job.  They were the smartest guys in the room, probably the universe.  In reality, all they’ve ever run is political campaigns, and it shows.  These fakers should control our health care?

So far only a few detainees have left, by Obama paying millions to the host countries.  The closing deadline has been fudged, amid worries he will bring jihadists to America -- a threat now realized.   To defuse some future crisis, the Outfit will leak word that most Gitmo denizens will remain in place until the legal process is resolved, probably after Obama's planned second term.       

This has become the hallmark of the Obama administration:  miniscule results, at extraordinary cost, masked by extravagant claims of success.  We’ve seen it recently in the proclaimed large number of jobs “saved or created” by the Stimulus plan.  Media efforts to verify the government’s boasts found them wildly inflated.  As glowing headlines are refuted with harsh realities disclosed by new media sources, the message has gotten out -- don’t believe what you hear from Washington.

Obamacrats believe, when you can’t beat them, silence them.  Enter Political Correctness, a news-management ploy to ban certain words and thoughts that interfere with government goals.  Early on, Bush’s “war on terror” was declared extinct.  From now on, our enemies would be treated with respect.  We’d negotiate, not go negative.  And, oh, yes, don’t anyone say anything bad about America’s Muslims.  It’s unfair to the great majority who are law-abiding.  True enough, but what if PC is carried too far?  People die.

In the aftermath of Ft. Hood, we’ve learned that various government agencies had gathered potentially damning evidence against the Muslim suspect, but were afraid to do anything with it.  The PC gods mustn’t be roused, you know, it could be bad for one’s career.  A lot of info wasn’t even entrusted to the military, though the accused was an Army major.  And so, once again our government bumbled its way to calamity, the lessons of 9/11 overruled by fear and inertia.

As a master practitioner of the art of PC, Obama spread the virus throughout his administration.  He employed it himself by refusing to admit a “terrorist” could have attacked during his reign.  A prototypical “study” has been ordered to discover the obvious.  How many Democrats does it take to state the truth?  Answer: don’t ask.

This rant explores uncharted territory where no rational human has ventured before -- the mind of a Democrat.

What makes them tick?  Why do Donks prevail in so many snooty provinces, like academia, the arts, media and culture?  While Republicans stoically perform the nation’s real but un-prestigious work, like business, construction, and manufacturing?     

The answer is simple.  

Remember "the clique" in high school?  It was a small, self-centered group of the most popular kids.  The football team captain, head cheerleader, senior class president, richest jerk, funniest drunk, etc.  You know the type, pretentious, supercilious snobs.    

Clique members didn't talk to the school's common riff-raff, who were on the outside, trying to get in.  Maybe a persistent wannabe was admitted once in a while, mostly for the fun of tormenting him, but in general the favored few zealously guarded their bubble of superiority and arrogance.

Guess what.  The clique still abides, only it's grown a lot bigger.  It's called the Democratic Party.  

The Donkey Clique is for anyone who seeks self-identity but hasn’t a clue how to earn it.  A way to be different and better, to stand out from the nerdy crowd without achieving a thing.  It wasn’t for nothing that President Obama was given the Peace Prize, when he had achieved no peace.  He’s a clique leader, and that’s enough.  

Say you’re out of high school, but still lack status. You've tried nose-piercing to no avail; people laughed at the snot dripping out.  The snake tattoo around your neck didn’t draw admiring stares.  Dirty, baggy pants; exposed underwear; rainbow-tufted hair; chew tobacco stains; and camel fleas crawling out from your underarms went for naught.

Nobody noticed you.  Then, in desperation, you made a startling discovery.  The nation’s social and leadership elite had one thing in common -- all were card-carrying Democrats!  Just by joining them you could gain instant status.  And you could keep your baggy pants and fleas, they’d be a status symbol among the other anointed!  Your statement of contempt for middle-class moralism!

Oh, it's so heart-warming and touchy-feely good to be among the elite snobs who fancy themselves the best and the brightest.  The great part is, your drugged-out friends, even your dysfunctional family will all be welcomed, even admired.  All anyone has to do is join the party and voila! they have total Moral Superiority (in their own mind) over the slobs who aren’t members.  It’s their version of Muslim extremists deeming everyone else “infidels”, or India’s upper-class shunning “Untouchables”.

As a newly-hatched Democrat, you quickly learn to follow the dictates of  your  clique’s leaders.  It sounds really good -- they want to save the world!  What could be nobler than that?  Feed the hungry, stop pollution, spread the wealth.  It’s so fine, so virtuous.  Shame on those rich, evil Republicans and conservatives who want to do the exact opposite.  Or at least that’s what you’re told, and a good team player doesn’t question the captain.  Besides, the same partisan message is reinforced on all the nightly TV joke shows, not to mention the music blasting from your player.  Your main intellectual sources.

You’re proud to be in the “party of the little guy”, even if it’s financed by millionaires and billionaires.  They’re altruistic and just want to help those less fortunate than themselves.  Well, maybe they make a buck or two in the process -- you notice Al Gore could pocket $1 billion for himself from international efforts to combat climate change -- but overall, they’re swell guys.  Real Democrats, like you.

One thing you do perceive: your party leaders seem to be congenital bosses, who lust to tell other people -- their inferiors -- what to do.  And they’ve found the perfect outlet for their obsession, the government.  That’s pretty much all they’re interested in.  They want it to be bigger and better, so they’ll be bigger and better.  With its colossal power, they can not only force disbelievers to accept their grandiose social engineering, but pay the cost too.  It’s miraculous, and you're part of it!           

Okay, an occasional word of disapproval shows up on alternative media, while you’re surfing.  Bigots claiming the world doesn’t want to be saved, that Democratic programs cost too much, or whatever.  Obviously, these skeptics have to be silenced.  Your clique
tries to make things better, while the opposition resists change.  It’s the intent that counts, not actual results.  So what if there’s been waste, destruction and other unintended consequences?  Saving the world is tough.  With bigger programs and a few more trillion, though, we’ll get it right.  Someday.  So, pay up!

Health care reform is a case-in-point.  Disbelievers call it a dumb-arse trillion-dollar socialist medicine scheme.  But our Donk Wonks in Congress are now perfecting the monstrosity, even though more than half the nation opposes it.  “We got the power, baby, and we’re gonna shove it down your throat -- even if you have to enjoy its benefits in jail, because you won’t pay,” they seem to be saying.

Face it, you can’t beat us, so join us.  Forget all the alleged facts, the issues, the arguments.  It’s our team against yours, and we’ll win.  That’s the Democratic mindset,  the high school clique, frozen in time.          

Ever notice jeans-makers sell their product on TV by focusing-in on the wearer’s butt?  When searching for the Democratic mentality, you have to do the same. 

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GREENHOUSE GAS DETECTOR -- Work with cattle, other animals.  Hold supplied detector to emission area and tally results. Must supply own boots.  Apply to B. Obama at the White House.

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In Virginia and New Jersey, the counter-revolution against Obamaism was born.

Average Americans, fed-up with Democratic taxing, spending and corruption, began taking back their country from its Washington, D.C., invaders Tuesday.  They sent a clear message: fix the economy instead of expanding big government, and tighten Uncle Sam’s belt instead of billing our children and grandchildren for today’s liberal grandee excesses.

The only throwback to old-style tax-and-spend was in an upstate New York congressional district, which got snarled in a decision by GOP insiders to pick a “safe” Democrat look-alike as their candidate to fill a vacancy.  In the age of Obama, they worried, due homage must be paid to media intransigence, political correctness, and similar trivial pieties.

But We the People would have none of that.  In both northern and southern states they elected conservative governors dedicated to growing jobs and the economy rather than subservience to liberal ideology.  And today across the country, faint sounds of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” stir.  In millions of patriot hearts, chilled by the specter of  Obama-led catastrophe, there’s new hope.  And not the government-love kind.    

The icy political geniuses who apply the revolution from the White House throne room, while our nascent ruler fronts with words of peace and benevolence, must be shaking in their jack-boots.  How could the Messiah be rejected?

For one thing, people know socialism when they see it.  Free money, free housing, free cars, and free health care can’t flow miraculously from Obama’s stash.  There’s a catch -- he’s dictating what kinds of loans we can’t get, how much business execs can’t be paid, and how tax-aided firms can’t operate.  And now they’re about to enact 2,000 pages of blather directing what kind of health care we can’t have, and who must be taxed for it.

Actually, there’s no such thing as socialism.  The concept was developed years ago by would-be tyrants as a means of winning public approval. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” may appeal to freeloaders, but not those who produce.  In practice, as the industrious balk, “socialism” invariably becomes simple dictatorship -- as Europeans found out when their “Light” brand led to non-elected Eurocrat oppression.  

Yet, the lessons of history are lost on our new D-Generation that largely twitters and twatters in self-absorption.  Part of a “morally superior elite” Democratic clique whose college years are/were spent on sex and drugs, they get their political views from TV comics who turn out to be sex  predators and partisan fakers.  Such “useful idiots” are easily led by the exploitive billionaires who run their party from behind-the-scenes.

If Democrats and their dumb, plodding government could create a Utopian society, they would have done so long ago.  In reality the party’s just a haven for immature minds who lust to tell others how to live their lives, usually for financial gain.  The Founders had it right  -- government is the natural-born enemy of freedom and human progress.  Maybe that painful lesson is being re-learned by a citizenry turning against the insanity on display in our nation’s capital.   

Following is a verbatim parody transcript of President Obama’s decision to send troops to the War Zone, secretly recorded during a conference call with his foreign policy team --

I have reviewed the election process, and I have made my decision.  As I promised, I have based it on careful evaluation of all factors involved, not a hasty response to some arbitrary and needless deadline.  Unlike those responsible for past quagmires, I do not act recklessly on important matters like the safety of our troops in the field.  I do so only if there is an unread bill in Congress costing at least a trillion dollars, which is my personal minimum for getting involved, and I know nothing about the subject.  But I digress.

In deciding on this military solution, I have consulted with the Chief Joints of Staff and my top advisors and czars.  Some of the latter are communists and socialists, or just general thugs.  This is very helpful, because they know how the enemy thinks.  I was asked to heed the words of Chairman Mao, “If in doubt, kill them all.”  But, rather than send thousands of troops to accomplish this, I feel we must employ a broader perspective.  It’s how I recently dealt with the issue of illegal pot use in our nation.  I simply declared it legal.  Problem solved.

Similarly, I know there will be less public concern over the number of troops if there is less flawed media coverage.  Our constitution has been interpreted to provide freedom of speech, but not freedom FROM speech.  To correct this, I have launched a War on Error.  There will be zero tolerance for news media errors, as I define them.  If a media entity doesn’t support my administration, it will be deemed an enemy and I will attack it at the source.

I have initially targeted the diabolical FOX TELEVISION NEWS NETWORK.  So, my decision is, I will send a small cadre of troops, a hundred or less, to hound Fox’s headquarters building for the duration of my presidency.  Nobody will be allowed in or out.  I believe this will solve the troop problem.  

There’s also the minor issue of Afghanistan troop levels.  As part of  the War on Error, I will not jeopardize national security by releasing such information.  At least not until I complete my goal of making everyone in America equally impoverished, which will also deter future terrorist attacks.  If we are broker than them, why would they bother?

This is your Commander in Chief, Barack Hussein Obama.  Heaven help our country, or whatever.

The above is a guaranteed verbatim parody of conceptual remarks.

INT. CAR - NIGHT

ART MAJORS and CANDY WISE, two slightly odd college kids, drive in Washington, D.C., on a stormy night.

CANDY: Where are we?

ART: Somewhere in Washington.  BANG! (o.c.)  Uh-oh!  A tire.

EXT. CAR - NIGHT

In drenching rain, they see the flat tire.  

ART: Hell, no spare.  We need help.  Got your cell-phone?

CANDY: Damn!  Battery’s dead. (checks watch) It’s three AM!

They look around, through the murk see the U.S. Capitol’s lighted dome nearby.  Art heads for it.  Candy follows.

EXT. DOORWAY, U.S. CAPITOL - NIGHT

Art pounds on the door.  It’s opened by HUSTLIN’ HARRY REID, a tall, gaunt, balding butler in a black suit.  

ART: Hello, sir.  I’m Art Majors, and this is Candy Wise, my fiancé. Sorry to bother you, but is there a phone available?      

Harry nods OK, and they enter.

INT. MARBLE FOYER - NIGHT

It’s outlandishly decorated with statues of deceased politicians, oil paintings, etc.  MUSIC blares o/c.

HARRY: You’re lucky, it’s a special night.  Nancy’s having a blast.  I’m sure there’s a phone you can use.  

A young maid, VALERIE SCARRIT, comes down the stairs.

VALERIE: I’m Valerie Scarrit, I’ll take you there.

They follow her, and she sings “The Pelosi Polka” to the MUSIC which grows louder as they approach --

    We love. . .the Nan Pelosi Polka, ya-ya,
    We move it ma-ma, we groove it pa-pa.
    Just grab a lobbyist, like a snake,
    Shake them down or you they’ll make. . .

INT. HOUSE CHAMBER - NIGHT    

They enter the large room, a scene of degeneracy.  Drunken LAWMAKERS, in grotesque costumes/masks, cavort half-naked and sing as a German band plays in the corner.

    So yes. . .her fat monster bills we will pass,
    And all who say “no”, get kicked in the grass.
    Don’t read it, don’t worry, it’s perfect as-is,
    Just vote in a hurry, it gives you a jizz.

At the Speaker’s podium, dominatrix NANCY PELOSI, in see-through vermillion pants-suit, is entangled with BIKER GUYS. She sees the students enter like lost souls in hell.  

    Let’s do. . .the Nan Pelosi Polka so fine,
    Take a big swig of more government wine.
    We got elected, we’re here and in charge,
    So ram it on through, as long as it’s large.

Valerie rips-off her maid’s outfit, leaving only skimpy panties and bra.  She flouts it before Art, who’s stunned. Candy gives her a mean look and dances with Art.

    Don’t slow. . .the Nan Pelosi Polka at all,
    Tonight is the night we’re having a ball.
    Can’t wait any more to find out the cost,
    We’re taxed-out anyway, re-election is lost.

Before the podium, Rep. BARNEY FRANK, in full drag regalia, scribbles on a piece of paper and holds it up.  

FRANK: I have an amendment, madam Speaker.

SPEAKER PELOSI: Without objection, accepted.  Anything else, Barney?

Frank jambs the slip in a “bill” pile on a table.

Seeing this, Candy is alarmed and turns to leave.  But Harry shuts and locks the door, pockets the key.  Frank arrives.

FRANK: I’m Barney Frank, don’t be scared.  I’m really sweet.  

ART: Uh, our car broke down in the rain.  Can you help us?

FRANK (smirking): Is that really why you’re here?

He nods to Harry, who with Valerie’s help strips Art and Candy down to their underwear.

Rep. CHARLES RANGEL arrives and inspects the scared pair.

RANGEL: I’m Charles Rangel, the ethics expert here.  (to Harry) This isn’t right.  You can’t just mistreat our constituents --

But Harry and Valerie prod them to the Speaker, who has eyes for both.  She sends the bikers away and pounds the gavel.

SPEAKER PELOSI: Shame on you!  You’ve misbehaved in our House.  (to Harry and Valerie)  Take them to their rooms!

Suddenly, Rep. ALAN GRAYSON rides into the chamber on a motorcycle, dressed in black leather.  He stops by Candy.

GRAYSON: Get on, Ho, I’ll help you.          

Scared Candy complies and is whisked away as Pelosi grins.  Harry and Valerie lead Art in the same direction.

RANGEL: (worried) I hope Grayson don’t violate anything.

SPEAKER PELOSI: I’ll show how we do it in Frisco.

INT. DARK ANTEROOM - NIGHT

Alone in a bed, Candy sees Nancy enter, in Art’s clothes.  The Speaker lies down beside her and fondles her.  Soon they’re making love.  Candy enjoys it.  They finish.

CANDY: I can’t believe I lost my virginity here!

SPEAKER PELOSI (in husky voice): Thanks, gotta go now.

INT. SECOND DARK ANTEROOM - NIGHT

Dressed in Candy’s clothes, the Speaker enters and lies down by Art, asleep in bed.  She strokes him until he wakes.

ART: We shouldn’t be doing this.

SPEAKER PELOSI: You don’t know the half of it.

ART: Okay, since you insist.

They make love in the dark, and finish.  Pelosi rises.

SPEAKER PELOSI: (dressing, leaving) Gotta go clean-up.

INT. HOUSE CHAMBER - NIGHT  

Flushed Pelosi, in her pants-suit, drags up to the podium.

SPEAKER PELOSI: Sorry, had to confer with both sides.

She pounds the gavel weakly, to no avail as the raucous NOISE persists.  She half-lifts the 1,000-page bill.

SPEAKER PELOSI: What the hell bill is this, anyway?  Doesn’t matter.  Hope it hasn’t been read?  No debate?  Republicans evicted?  Lobbyists okay with it?  Everyone drunk?  Good, time for final passage.  Everyone will be recorded as voting “yea”. (banging gavel) It’s passed.  

Harry mounts to the rostrum, pounds the gavel once.

HARRY: On behalf of the Senate, I declare our acceptance!  To the White House with it, whatever it is!

He leans to peck Pelosi’s cheek, but she shrinks away.

SPEAKER PELOSI: I know what you want, Harry.  NO!  Let’s get the hell out of here.

Harry throws the bill in the air.  Pages fall all over the place as the mob rushes for the exits.   

Bear with this, folks.  Please read the article before deciding.

First, the context: Democrats have floated massively flawed statistics to sell their health care coup, as well as other grandiose spending programs.  But figures can lie.   

The Democrats'  “jobs” stimulus fiasco is an example.  The Federal Highway Admin. doesn’t actually count jobs created.  It simply assumes 28,000 jobs for every $1 billion spent.  Actually, it’s “job years” in Obamaspeak -- the amount required to fund one worker for one year.  So if all workers on a $1 billion highway project stayed on the job a typical four years, only 7,000 real jobs would be created, not the fake 28,000.

Also, the “jobs created” figures includes the cost of land acquisition for projects.  Thus, if the Feds fund a bunch of low-priority airport improvements as they did recently, the false jobs benefit could be further inflated by the cost of land for new runways.  But, why worry?  The phony data helps sell further “jobs creating” government empires.

Equally bogus is the oft-repeated “46 million people don’t have health insurance” scam.  Gotta overturn our health system to include them, right?  Problem is, that figure is bloated by millions of young, healthy folk who could afford insurance but choose not to buy it.  Plus millions of aliens here illegally.  The number of Americans who really can’t get health insurance boils down to around 15 million, give or take.  But, because they believed the nonsense, coverage-bare Obama-backers will wake up one day and find his plan forces them to buy expensive insurance or go to jail.  And half the uninsured will remain that way even after we're taxed $1 trillion to help them.

Probably the worst data abuse resulted from a new study by Harvard’s Dr. David Himmelstein and others, which claimed 45,000 premature deaths occur every year among those who lack health insurance.  The total was broken-down by state, and even city, for the convenience of media types who predictably produced a river of ink demanding enactment of Obamacare to save lives.

Trouble is, the deaths figure is false.  It was based on a 1993 study in which “researchers” interviewed people, found who were uninsured at that time and then tracked their deaths.  A decade later, they reported how many had died, as if lack of insurance was a cause in every case, and then projected the total nationally.  No effort was made to see if, as was likely, many study subjects had acquired insurance over the years.  All were simply assumed to be still uninsured.  Why let truth stand in the way of useful propaganda?   

Well, as they say in court, Democrats opened the door.  Let’s do some data projections of our own.  Start with a U.S. News and World Report posting of Oct. 26, 2009:

“About 45 million elderly or disabled people get their health insurance from Medicare. In 2008, it cost the government about $450 billion. The figure is growing rapidly, consuming ever larger chunks of the federal budget, something Congress desperately wants to fix as part of healthcare reform.”

That means Medicare costs about $10,000 per senior.  We know Medicare will be cut by $400 billion in ten years under Obamacare, or $40 billion a year.  Simple math -- $40 billion divided by $10,000 -- shows 4 million seniors will lose health care each year, and presumably die prematurely as a result.  In ten years the slaughter would total 40 million, making Obama a contender (with Chairman Mao) for the worst mass murderer in history.  Where’s the headlines?

Okay, okay.  The paragraph above isn’t serious, it’s just statistics manipulation to prove a point -- that the Democrats’ hoked-up claims shouldn’t be believed.  There’s no way to prove how many seniors will expire early because heart operations, lung transplants, cancer removal and other medical treatments are withheld under Obama’s wondrous “reform”.  But it strains credulity to say NONE will die!  That’s why the furor over “death panels”, which prompted Democrats to scrap their masterwork’s “end of life” sections.

NO version of the health care monstrosity should be enacted.  All their bills should be trucked to a recycling center and fed into the grinding machine.  Watching sausage being made is less nauseating than Congress’ legislative insanity.

Because Medicare is being seriously de-funded, seniors don’t have much Hope.  They’ll get the short end of the stick under Obama’s heartless “Change”.  Let’s hope someone keeps score of the carnage, so the “Peace Prize” President can be judged on his gruesome results rather than lofty but empty words.           






    

President Obama’s job approval numbers may have tanked, but his popularity remains high.  He still polls in the 50%-plus range, about as good as his 53% election victory.  Therefore, his multi-trillion dollar tax and spend programs must be enacted by Congress.  

At least, that’s the conventional wisdom at the White House and among cheering journalist wonks.  But is this reality, or just a convenient untruth?

Say you’re an average Joe, couched-out in flyover territory, watching fossil TV network news.  You answer the phone and it’s a pollster who wants to know your views on major public policy issues.  Hey, this is your chance to have an impact on national politics!

But first, you want to avoid screwing-up.  So, you’re a little wary when the first question asked is some version of whether you like Obama personally.  You happen to be Caucasian, and are well-aware of the danger of appearing racially judgmental.  Also, it occurs to you that you really don’t know who’s asking these questions.  It could be anyone, including some busy-body trying to stir-up discord.

Even if the caller is legitimate, there’s possible trouble.  Despite the promise of anonymity, you’ve seen news reports of mass thefts of people’s Social Security numbers and other personal information by computer hackers.  If you say you don’t like the President, your name could wind-up on some Racist Enemies data base, rendering you permanently discredited when seeking a job, bank loan, insurance, or housing.      

All these thoughts flash through your mind in seconds.  But you have to answer, since even silence might be suspect.  So you decide it’s better to be safe than sorry.  Just mumble you like the guy personally.  What could be wrong with that?  It puts you with the nation’s open-minded, enlightened, tolerant majority -- not conservatives, who’re pictured in media as dark, hateful and despicable folk who want the President to fail.

Since you’re a poll-savvy person, you know follow-up questions will delve into particular issues such as foreign policy, health-care, etc.  You can state your honest views on these matters with impunity, since it’s politically acceptable to be on either side.  It isn’t racist to support more troops for Afghanistan, or oppose massive hikes in the national debt.

And so you give a positive “liking” response.  The pollster’s questions continue apace, and your doubts about some Obama policies are duly recorded.  All this shows up later in poll results that Americans generally like our first black President, but oppose him on some specific issues.

But how accurate is the majority “personal support” being proclaimed?  How many poll respondents, if any, give politically correct replies on this subject though they wouldn’t vote for Obama again as his leftist views have become evident?  We may never know.

The peril of being pictured as racist, no matter how inaccurately, was shown once again in the recent Rush Limbaugh/National Football League imbroglio.  Totally false “racial comments” attributed to him were planted on internet sites and then quoted without verification by the same journalists who tout their professionalism over “amateur” bloggers.  The NFL folded and denied Limbaugh his right to freedom of speech.  The race-card is increasingly drawn by GOP-hating Democrats when the political deck is stacked against them. 

Such attacks could be made against any person for even the slightest alleged violation of political correctness.  These unwritten mind-reading edicts are promulgated and enforced by liberal media judges and juries who have a vested interest in stifling debate about flawed policies of their beloved Democratic party.  With the government gun available for enforcement, the last free expression available for many Americans is the secret ballot.  And the Donks are moving against this, for union members.    

It’s particularly worrisome that most large polling firms are aligned with and paid by the partisan media.  New questions about their methods were raised this week with one survey’s finding of suddenly increased public support for a socialized medicine option in the health care bill -- just as that measure was being finalized by majority-party Senators.  Shifty wording used in a key question, and interviews of far more Democrats than Republicans, produced the propitious result.  Of course, that was resolved by “weighting” -- or was it?  Only pollsters know all their secretive and labyrinthine techniques.

Let’s hope the poll-genies step-up efforts to insure that results of their Obama popularity questions are accurate, and so inform the public.  They may be trying, but the disparity between personal liking and policies dislike in poll findings is largely unexplained.  

Until a believable cause other than political correctness is shown, many may view the Chief Exec’s popularity ratings with skepticism.  That would be unfair to him, since he deserves to be judged on performance.  Don’t act like he has to be propped-up by polls and media, who may be well-meaning but ultimately damage his cause.    

                 

(One of several occasional articles on America’s most corrupt institutions)

Should we ditch Wall Street?  As in, tear down all the buildings and replace them with wetlands fed by the Hudson River?  So New Yorkers would at least have a place to take off their shirt and enjoy nature, rather than lose it to a bunch of high-toned gamblers?

The theory: We don’t need the New York Stock Exchange and associated money-grubbers any more.  They do more harm than good.  They’re largely to blame for the current worldwide financial crash which is being exploited by President Obama and his Democratic co-conspirators to expand government.  Maybe the Street will be its own victim.  Should we destroy it to save capitalism?

Originally, the NYSE was created to enable entrepreneurs to raise working capital, so they could provide the goods and services needed by a growing population.  Soon an army of associated paper-pushers was added: stock brokers, analysts, money managers, raters, mutual funders, etc.  Plus a whole bunch of government regulators.  As the watchdogs proved ineffective at halting fraud, more regulators were added.  Here's where the theory advances --

Nobody noticed, but the whole bunch are just high-cost middle-men.  They produce no cars, homes, or cans of soup for average Americans.   They merely make, or facilitate, paper trades, extracting extravagant commissions for themselves in the process.

Soon, as the Street's population grew, the middle-men cart was pulling the capital formation horse.  Wall Street became little more than a giant casino, where fast-buck artists wheel and deal in frantic daily money manipulations.  Other than by an occasional Initial Public Offering of stock, the corporations whose paper is the subject of all the activity earn little.  Their stock value may rise or plummet on any given day, though there’s no change in the business basics.  

In the past quarter, even as corporations tanked, big Wall St. firms ripped-off billions. Unemployment and suffering may have been rampant among the lowly workers who make this country tick, but one trader boasted of earning $1 Billion from “quick” (by the minute, or even second?) stock turnovers.  All with zero benefit to the nation.

So, now comes President Obama with a proposal to redress the crapshoot.  His regulators haven’t been able to cope with all the unfathomable new commission- and ponzi-cows, such as asset-backed derivatives, so he has a solution -- more regulators.  The scheme is presented as a populist rein-in of bloated moneyman pay, but it’s a fascist Trojan Horse in disguise.   

As has been noted lately, fascism is an economic system in which private stores and industry remain in place, but they’re controlled by the government behind-the-scenes.  Some would point to General Motors and Chrysler, large banks, Wall Street majors, Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, AIG insurance, and planned socialized medicine as examples.  College student loans are among the next takeover targets.

Soon all of America’s top corporations could find themselves subject to such intrusive controls, masked as prevention of  stock market excesses.  They will be virtual captives of  Obama’s whacko czars and bureaucrats.  A lot of health care players, such as AARP and the AMA, think they’ve staved-off such ruin by cutting deals with their future overseers, but that’s not how government expansionists work.  What’s given today can be taken back tomorrow, with little more than the stroke of a pen.

That bring us back to a theoretical alternative -- ditch Wall Street completely.  Because of the computer’s invention, there’s no longer a need for the gamblers' costly services.  Let stocks be sold and bought solely by the companies which issue them, with no middleman rip-off.  All the listed corporations are big boys who have, or could launch,  web sites and easily handle the additional chore.   Regulation would be simple: no transactions of any kind, involving stocks, bonds or other company equities, anywhere else.  Full apples-and-oranges prospectus-type information would be published on web-sites, in plain English.

It’s the capitalist way.  Companies would reap the benefits, and suffer the stock-value losses, of their own business operations.  To prevent gambling, a required minimum stock holding period would be established for investors.  Policies would be set on other details as needed.

You want CEO pay cut?  Make it simple -- no exec of a major corporation could earn more than the Obama-sanctified $250,000 a year in salary, indexed for inflation.  Any additional compensation would be paid monthly in his/her company’s current stock, in an amount approved by other stockholder votes.  It could be re-sold to the company at market price.  And by the way, there’d be only a single category of common stock for all.  No voting stock, preferred stock, or such nonsense.  If the execs do a good (long-term) job they’ll make money.  If not, welcome to real capitalism.         

Oh, well, so much for theories.  The outlook is, Wall Street will continue as the national gambling hall.  Big players will continue cutting their deals with Obama.  In due course, the stock ponzi schemes will crash anew.  Once again, millions of Americans wiped-out financially will demand action.  The government will hire yet another round of regulators.  But greed will abide, until the money swamp is drained and replaced by something more useful.  The question is, what will it be?