Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The Death of American Heath Care

This Sunday American health care as we knew it died. Another chunk of America's freedom died with it. The finest health care system in the world was killed by greedy politicians, who in an astonishing fit of political pique, passed a socialized medicine bill in spite of the overwhelming evidence that the American people didn't want it. They passed it having never read the bill. They passed on the basis of bald-faced lies about how it can be done without raising taxes (Ha), by cutting out waste, fraud and abuse (Ha Ha), and by cutting what doctors and hospitals can earn. (Ha, Ha, Ha) Their principal lie was the whopper about 30 million Americans without any access to health care. That is a lie of stupendous proportions. Just check any emergency room in any hospital in America and you'll see these "uninsured" Americans, including illegal aliens, getting all the health care they want, for free. None can be turned away. It's the law. Nonetheless, Obama and his minions steamrollered this monstrosity on all of us in the name of helping these "uninsured" victims who were already covered.

This was never about providing health care. It won't, except very inefficiently. It was never about covering the uninsured. They were all already covered for all practical purposes. What was it about then? It was, and is, all about power. The more power the leftists can wield, the better they like it. And now they have complete control of one sixth of the American economy. And they would like to control 100% of the American economy. They will continue to jam the next batch of destructive bills such as "cap and trade" down our collective throats unless and until we put a stop to it. How? By making sure they lose control of congress this fall. It is that simple. And it is essential at this point.

Tonight many states held the party political caucuses. Here's hoping the next generation of no-nonsensence politicians were nominated and are on their way to replacing the embarrassing gang that killed health care in this country. Our nation's survival depends on it.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Deja Vu All Over Again?

As the special election in Massachusetts nears, one can't help getting the sick feeling that we've already seen the outcome which, if the Republican doesn't get at least 10 percent more than the Democrat, is foreordained: The Democrat will win. Oh, it might take a recount and several court interventions, but in a close election, they will "find" the votes to make the Democrat the winner. They always have.

There are many examples of this over the years, the most recent being in Minnesota where the comedian Democrat eked out a controversial "victory" after the votes we all in and "counted" and where he at first had lost, then additional votes were "found." A similar outcome happened in the Washington gubernatorial election just a few years ago. There it looked as though the Republican had won, but hold the phone, after a suspicious recount and court intervention, surprise, surprise, ---the Democrat won. A few cycles ago the same thing happened in South Dakota where the "Indian reservation" vote mysteriously was delayed until democrat election officials knew just how many more votes they needed to elect their man and, shock of all shocks, they found just enough. In state after state, election after election, all the close wins have gone to the Democrats. One would be very hard pressed to find a single senatorial or gubernatorial election where a republican has won by less than five percent. In those cases even the most "progressive" Democrat election officials didn't feel confident enough to "find" that many.

How can this be explained? There have been many articles and books published on this subject. They detail the dead voters, bussed-in voters, ballot box stuffing, ballot spoiling, and many other techniques these enlightened progressives use to impose their will on all of us. They also cite numerous statistical experts to point out the absurdly low probability that all close election would go the the Democrats. They also point out that the Democrats get a great advantage if they can get an election into the court system since they have "owned" most of the judges for years. But this doesn't explain why Republicans continue to accept these tainted results. There really is no good answer to that question other than Republicans tend to be too polite to engage in the barroom brawl tactics needed when you are grappling with election thieves. Somehow the republicans don't have the stomach for such fights and simply step aside, conceding even though they know the election was stolen. This only emboldens the vote stealers for the next cycle. Massachusetts will likely provide the next opportunity to see if the party has grown a spine or if we will simply bend over and take it yet again.