First of a Three Part Series The political-media establishment often cites Medicare as a “popular” example of the benefits of activist government, unrestrained by Constitutional limits. But in a rational world Medicare would be seen as a monument to progressive myths, deceptions and failures. In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to the Missouri home of [...]
Millions of citizens in the tea party movement have begun to demand that Congress obey the Constitution. This week a federal court gave them much needed validation. Back in October, 2009 in the midst of frenzied, back-room deal-making to cobble together bare majorities in the House and Senate to enact ObamaCare House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [...]
The health care debate begins again with legislation to repeal ObamaCare. This Debate will not be settled until politicians from both parties confront the truth. What if a bunch of politicians tried to make themselves look extraordinarily clever and more compassionate than the rest of us by claiming that health care was “a right” and [...]
Decades of sad experience proves that economic predictions from government officials and Economists almost never turn out to be accurate. Yet the political-media establishment continues to be driven by politically motivated, economic predictions. Specious predictions are presented to the public as if they were knowable, proven facts. The campaign for ObamaCare was a tsunami of [...]
The Constitution once served as a firewall between us and those who would harness government power to control our lives. But the progressives believe an elite few can make us better through massive bureaucratic control. With a single word, “effect,” progressives empowered themselves to defy Constitutional limits on government power. They now claim their power [...]
We all remember Barack Obama’s early selling points for government supervised health care. It was all about “helping” the unfortunate folks who were supposedly excluded from health care because they didn’t have an opportunity or the means to acquire health insurance. Well, the Democrats don’t see them as victims any longer. Now they’re seen as [...]
During his health care hype speech at George Mason University this week President Obama bellowed: If you like your doctor, you’re going to be able to keep your doctor. If you like your plan, keep your plan. I don’t believe we should give government or the insurance companies more control over health care in America. [...]
How could anyone believe the chaotic farce under way in Congress could result in improved health care? The debate over ObamaCare would have ended before it began if members of the House and Senate remembered the oath they took to defend the Constitution, which does not authorize the federal government to provide or regulate health [...]
Update March 21: Obviously, we were wrong. The House has passed the Senate version, and ObamaCare and it is now the law of the land. March 13, 2010: The conflicts and lack of trust within the their own Party make it impossible for President Obama and the Democrats to enact their sweeping government take-over of [...]
It seems that we, like Phil Connors, leading character in the movie Ground Hog Day, are stuck in a insipid time warp. We awaken every morning to yet another rerun of the political pitch for Extreme Makeover, Health Care Edition. Saturday morning it was the President’s “weekly address,” posted in video form on the White [...]
