Archive for March, 2010

Mark Watson

Perhaps Bart Stupak is vying for the Neville Chamberlain award for the 21st Century.

Chamberlain, Great Britain’s prime minister from 1937 through 1940, desperately wished to avoid war with Adolf Hitler’s Germany. In September 1938, Chamberlain let Nazi Germany absorb a portion of Czechoslovakia based on Hitler’s assurances he would not seek an expanse of Germany’s border.

Got it in writing and everything.

His famous 1938 appeasement moment came when he returned from a meeting with Hitler and waived a treaty to the cameras, declaring that he had achieved “peace for our time.”

Less than one year later, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II.

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Ashley Stinnett

No, I am not talking about a literal post Civil-War-esque secession from the United States.

However, I am referring to secession from big government mandates through state legislation. Case in point: Since the health-care overhaul debate began last year, many states have already, or will at some near point in the future, draft legislation that exempts them from federal law.

Tread lightly when it comes to the Constitution, my friends

It has already happened in Virginia.

If you want a good example of state sovereignty take a look at how many states have either passed the Firearms Freedom Act or are on the verge. In fact, beginning last year, over a dozen states have either passed a bill specifying reaffirmation of the 10^th amendment or have it on the agenda.

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Bob Franken

I’m still trying to sort out the significance of those racist and homophobic actions by those Tea Party demonstrators at the Capitol this weekend. Or if there was any significance.

Instead of tea and biscuits, we got a serving of tea and bigots. And once they hurled their vile rants and expectorants …yes, one frenzied slug even spat on an African-American congressman…they became irrelevant to the health care debate.

Bigotry overrides the message, such as it is.

For the protesters, it was all over but the shouting. As isolated as their organizers insisted they were, the moronic incidents discredited whatever points they were trying to make.

All they did was provide a photo opportunity; opportunity for Democratic leaders, who could lock arms and use the powerful symbolism of the civil rights movement to make their final case for health care reform.

So what did the frenzied hatred mean? Did it represent the true feelings of the loud majority in the crowd? They say it did not…just isolated incidents. So maybe it was a sign of progress.

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Well, dare to dream. And granted, as good a speech as it was, it didn’t do a damn bit of good. Even so, just in case you have any illusions about what Congress did to the country last night, this sums it up in all its ugly glory.

Brett Noel

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Dan Calabrese

America is screwed.

I’m not even really sure what more to say about this travesty.

We’ve already discussed how completely fraudulent the CBO scoring is, and why it will certainly not “reduce the deficit” as the Democrats astoundly keep repeating. I’ve already gone on at length about why Democrats really like to see Americans dependent on government.

Screwed.

I’ve tried, as have others, to explain that getting more people “covered” by insurance is exactly the worst thing to do, let alone get them “covered” by government health care, which will bankrupt the country in the process.

And oh, by the way, congratulations to the much-ballyhooed “conservative movement,” which has done so much to bring about free-market health care during its many decades of holding conferences and garnering winning ratings in the radio industry. Nice job, losers.

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Bob Maistros

In honor of the passage of the $1-trillion health reform bill …

The Executive Whose Plant Produced Shoes

There was an executive whose plant produced shoes
Who had so many dependents he didn’t know what to do.

She, on the other hand, would do great under ObamaCare.

(You see, under ObamaCare, he had to provide expensive government-approved health plans for his employees, plus pay higher taxes … including an unprecedented expansion of Medicare taxes to unearned income …  to support the previously uninsured, while hyperinflation caused by overspending, higher energy costs attributable to restrictions on exploration, and Chinese competition ate all into his profits.  Not to mention that nearly 50 percent of Americans now paid no income taxes whatsoever, further increasing the burden on him and other actual taxpayers.)

So he gave his staff pink slips, declared his plant dead.
Offshored his production, and moved his assets to the Cayman Islands.
(What, you expected EVERYTHING to rhyme?)

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Herman Cain

In December 2008, before President Obama was even sworn in, he said “deficits don’t matter.” Although it’s not true as economist Brian Wesbury explained in an article dated December 8, 2008, President Obama and the Democrat-led Congress have shown that that’s how they roll by increasing the national debt to nearly $4 trillion in Obama’s first year.

Fantasyland.

The national debt increased by that same amount under President Bush in eight years. That’s just an annoying fact to this administration and this Congress so they just choose to ignore it.

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