Senator Christopher Dodd (Scumbag, Conn.) is expected to announce his retirement once his current term is up. Dodd joins a growing list of rats abandoning ship as the Democrats steam forward against popular opinion on every program. Senator Byron Dorgan (D. N.D.) has announced he won't be seeking reelection either. We are experiencing the first small waves, lapping at the shore, of the tsunami created by an earthquake the liberals created. Call government expansion continental drift. It has eeked forward, even under Reagan, slowly, with brief spurts. The tension built until this administration sublimated itself to the world (think about it, the analogy works) and the shockwave began. The turning point may be here. Saturday, I'm going to give you my ideas, in as much as I can. I hope you will be reading then and I hope you'll invite others.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
You Know, Transparent. Like Steel.
Well, faced with his campaign commitment to broadcast the health care debates on C-SPAN, President Obama, through White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, derided the idea that such a thing was necessary or even wise. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D. Cal.) talked about how open the closed door debates have been. This while C-SPAN practically begged to televise the debates. Maybe this is because the final debate to reconcile the House and Senate versions is to be done outside of committee, behind closed doors, hopefully in a smoke filled room.
Monday, January 4, 2010
To be Sung to the tune of "Yesterday"
Sovereignty,
It's not the concept that it used to be,
My President gives it away so damned freely,
Oh, sovereignty,
You left so suddenly,
Why you had to go, I don't know,
It's Interpol,
I said somethings wrong, now I long,
for sovereignty...y..y..y...sovereignty.
It's not the concept that it used to be,
My President gives it away so damned freely,
Oh, sovereignty,
You left so suddenly,
Why you had to go, I don't know,
It's Interpol,
I said somethings wrong, now I long,
for sovereignty...y..y..y...sovereignty.
President Obama's desire to hand off every bit of American sovereignty to the world at large continued, very quietly, last month, as he handed Interpol protection from the limitations of Constitutional rights in conducting activities inside the United States as well exempting them from being subject to any U.S. oversight. It just has to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
National Public Radio "Fairly Unbalanced"
Ah yes, that ever so evenhanded nationally funded station with the people who speak at a level so inaudible they could be drowned out by the clapping of a one handed man. Speaking of which, here are some of your tax dollars at work (you don't think they work solely on donations, do you?), ridiculing the tea party movement adopting that oh, so wonderful and intelligent counterargument of calling them by a sexual act. HOW CLEVER!!! F***king morons feel free to apply within.
My Newest Love Letter to Congressman Joesph Cao (RINO, La.)
I received your form letter regarding your recent vote on health care. I would like you to address the following:
1) You state that you believe health care is a moral obligation. What makes you think the government has, or should have, the power of enforcing affirmative moral obligations upon society? You are not voting for an obligation, you are trying to legislate a right into creation where none existed. Tom Harkin has clearly expressed the idea that this is just a step towards an inalienable right which will be expanded upon and granted by the government. I believe Christianity is a moral obligation. Should we establish Christianity as a state religion? Or should we continue to leave freedom of religion as it was intended, a right granted by our Creator, not our government. I'll agree not to enforce my moral obligations on you if you'll agree not to enforce them on me.
2) You state that the Stupak amendment will only provide federal funding for abortions in limited cases, including rape and incest. I believe that abortion should only be an option in the case of a clear medical necessity and that it is the taking of a life without any justifiable cause. Will I be able to segregate my tax dollars from this funding or do I have to go to jail to preserve my religious beliefs?
3) You conclusorily state that health care in the United States lags behind other countries. I submit that the studies I think matter show it clearly is the best. You cite as evidence increases in diseases. Does insurance prevent disease? Will insurance curb the rate of HIV infections in the city? Will diabetes rates drop because of insurance? The opposite is actually true as economics and behavioral science tells us that people increase risky behaviors as a result of insurance mitigating that risk.
4) You fail to address the employment consequences of the bill. Higher taxes on the middle class. Taxes on health benefits. Likely loss of jobs or benefits. Higher payroll taxes on small business, etc.
5) You also missed the biggest and most obvious flaw of your argument. There are no uninsured persons in Louisiana. We have a charity hospital system that serves all, paid for by tax dollars. And still those health concerns you cite continue to rise. Every state that has attempted universal coverage has failed to do so without drastic negative consequences.
I submit, sir, that your vote has more to do with the political expediency of getting reelected than it does with any sense of moral obligation as your supposed moral obligation defies all logic. I will put whatever money and time I can to have you defeated in the Republican primary or to find an independent candidate to protect the people from a government gone off the rails and to restore ideas of constitutionality to the actions of our legislature. The hope I had for you upon your election is long gone. You have been a great disappointment to me.
Mark R. Ladd, Esq
1) You state that you believe health care is a moral obligation. What makes you think the government has, or should have, the power of enforcing affirmative moral obligations upon society? You are not voting for an obligation, you are trying to legislate a right into creation where none existed. Tom Harkin has clearly expressed the idea that this is just a step towards an inalienable right which will be expanded upon and granted by the government. I believe Christianity is a moral obligation. Should we establish Christianity as a state religion? Or should we continue to leave freedom of religion as it was intended, a right granted by our Creator, not our government. I'll agree not to enforce my moral obligations on you if you'll agree not to enforce them on me.
2) You state that the Stupak amendment will only provide federal funding for abortions in limited cases, including rape and incest. I believe that abortion should only be an option in the case of a clear medical necessity and that it is the taking of a life without any justifiable cause. Will I be able to segregate my tax dollars from this funding or do I have to go to jail to preserve my religious beliefs?
3) You conclusorily state that health care in the United States lags behind other countries. I submit that the studies I think matter show it clearly is the best. You cite as evidence increases in diseases. Does insurance prevent disease? Will insurance curb the rate of HIV infections in the city? Will diabetes rates drop because of insurance? The opposite is actually true as economics and behavioral science tells us that people increase risky behaviors as a result of insurance mitigating that risk.
4) You fail to address the employment consequences of the bill. Higher taxes on the middle class. Taxes on health benefits. Likely loss of jobs or benefits. Higher payroll taxes on small business, etc.
5) You also missed the biggest and most obvious flaw of your argument. There are no uninsured persons in Louisiana. We have a charity hospital system that serves all, paid for by tax dollars. And still those health concerns you cite continue to rise. Every state that has attempted universal coverage has failed to do so without drastic negative consequences.
I submit, sir, that your vote has more to do with the political expediency of getting reelected than it does with any sense of moral obligation as your supposed moral obligation defies all logic. I will put whatever money and time I can to have you defeated in the Republican primary or to find an independent candidate to protect the people from a government gone off the rails and to restore ideas of constitutionality to the actions of our legislature. The hope I had for you upon your election is long gone. You have been a great disappointment to me.
Mark R. Ladd, Esq
God Creates Man, Science Destroys God, Government Appoints Itself New Creator
Philosopher and misogynist Friedrich Nietchze famously postulated in his work "The Gay Science" that God is dead and we have killed him. Our founding fathers held that the inalienable rights of man are deprived from his Creator in the Declaration of Independence. Senator Tom Harkin (D. Iowa) believes that government gives rights to the people. Therefore, Senator Tom Harkin appears to think he is our Creator, or at least that government is our Creator. At the very least, Tommy Boy seems to believe that government grants the rights that men enjoy. If that is indeed the case: A) the Constitution and Declaration of Independence are meaningless scraps of paper that we are spending way too much in tax dollars to preserve; and B) government can take away any right that it sees fit through legislation.
I'm not going to go as far as Glenn Beck does in the transcript linked to above, mainly because I think Tommy Boy and other politicians are too stupid to think through what they're saying. It does give an insight to how Tommy Boy and progressives feel government and the citizenry interact, as master and slave.
Our legislative branch, with the full support of the executive, is on a fool's errand, a drunk at 3 a.m. driving around in a stupor looking for another beer and God is dead and the people in the street be damned for they are above the law.
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