Michael Rulle
“Marxo-Sapiens†to the Rescue, Part 2: Prepare for 1,900 Pages of Unintended Consequences
Editor’s Note: Click here for Part 1 of this 3-part series
Americans will be very unhappy when this bill finally is implemented. Unintended consequences abound, as they always do, when liberals “do good” with other people’s money. Regardless of how bad one paints the picture, it is almost guaranteed to be worse. There will be a single government approved “qualified” insurance plan that all will be required to purchase. The only choice you will have is the size of the deductible. All other provisions will be pre-set by the government. I’m sure they know better than you, right?
Even though the bill is 2000 pages, the nature of this “one size fits all” plan has not yet been devised. So we cannot even evaluate what is being shoved down our throat. Feel safe yet? All tax filers will have to provide proof of being in a qualified plan, or be fined. You will not be able to keep your current insurance. read more…
Editor’s Note: For more of NewsReal’s coverage of the recent Health Care vote click here.
Karl Marx was a moron. Like so many intellectuals, he thrived in the tree but was lost in the forest. His solution for mankind’s ills was to simply invent a new being. The Marxo-Sapien is a being that happily gives to the maximum of its abilities and takes only what it “needs.” Like Big Foot, this being has never been seen, but is assumed by many to exist. It is implicit in the newly passed Nancy Pelosi “health care” bill. We are all Marxo-Sapiens now. read more…
Editor’s Note: See NewsReal’s previous commentaries on the Fort Hood Massacre:
- Forsmark Got It Right – And It’s Not Just Olbermann
- Our Brain Dead Country
- To MSNBC the Least Important Thing about Killer Army Doctor is He was a Muslim Who Lauded Suicide Bombers: Meltdown with Keith Olbermann Part 14
- Huge Military Slaughter — But First A “Shout Out†to Obama’s Bud
It would be reassuring if Muslim organizations were more unequivocal in their condemnation of acts of violence done in the name of Islam. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) includes in its statement condemning the killings at Fort Hood, the following warning:
“Unfortunately, based on past experience, we also urge American Muslims, and those who may be perceived to be Muslim, to take appropriate precautions to protect themselves, their families and their religious institutions from possible backlash.”
This statement is designed to create and establish among Muslims the feeling they are victims within America. It also is meant to provide the basis for understanding why some lunatic who is Muslim might have reason to “snap.” This is not much different than the view, still held by a large minority of Americans (Reverend Wright anyone?) that 9/11 was simply America’s chickens coming home to roost. read more…
Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman
Editor’s Note: See NewsReal’s additional commentary on the elections here, here, here, here, and here.
District 23 in New York encompasses 11 counties in the most northern part of the state. Most of the district is further north than Toronto, Canada. It’s geographically large, about the size of Connecticut and Massachusetts combined. Much of it overlaps the beautiful and enormous Adirondack Park, the largest State or Federal park in the lower 48 states.
District 23’s land mass is approximately 1/3rd of New York State’s. Its population is only 1/29th. In a state where Barack Obama outperformed John McCain by 28 points, District 23 elected Republican Congressman John McHugh, now Obama’s Secretary of the Army. A Republican has represented the district since there was a Republican party. The last non-Republican elected to Congress was a member of the Whig Party. Of course, Obama’s choice of McHugh was not a cynical political choice made by Rahm Emmanuel, but one based on bipartisan merit alone. But cynical politics is not new. Losing this district was. read more…
Editor’s Note: NewsReal has previously covered Sarah Palin’s clashes with GOP insiders, the media, and the Left here, here, and here.
As I have said many times before on my blog, the Republican Party and the majority of Republican commentators wish that Sarah Palin would just go away. They don’t like her, period. They share the same sensibility about her as do their Democratic opponents. They think she is unprepared, an intellectual lightweight, a prima donna, and unable to do anything but get 35% of the vote. They view her as a disaster for the party.
So, when Palin endorsed New York State Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, some of the usual suspects came out against her action. I think they had their feelings hurt when she stated that “and best of all, Hoffman is not a member of a political machine”–an obvious dig at the Republican Party. Doesn’t anyone remember anything? Palin herself was not a member of a political machine. She won Alaska by beating the corrupt self dealing Republican political machine. Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is in a close race in New York District 23 in the Adirondocks region (where coincidentally I am writing this from in Lake Placid, New York, on a long weekend vacation) against liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava and Democrat Bill Owens. read more…
Last night, Brit Hume and Bill O’Reilly informed their audience, in a discussion about recent White House attacks on Fox News, that partisan comparisons to Nazi Germany in today’s political world are verboten. Apparently it rebounds negatively back onto the writer or speaker. However, sometimes the shoe fits so well, it must be worn. White House interim communications director Anita Dunn is desperately trying to avoid the fate of her historical doppelganger sister in arms, Leni Riefenstahl. Let me elaborate. read more…
Editor’s Note: See NewsReal’s previous posts on the Left’s attacks on talk radio host Rush Limbaugh’s attempt to get into the professional football business here, here, here, and here.
I like my coffee black and my NFL football straight, to paraphrase “Broadway Joe” Namath. In a recent blog critical of the International Olympic Committee (“Jazzman Fails to Sanctify“), I wrote “my worst nightmare is the NFL getting involved in partisan politics like the IOC.†Sports are supposed to be what Jay Nordlinger calls a “safe zone†from politics.
I have been a sports fan since I have been conscious. Sports provide me an emotional release. I have all the DirecTV sports packages. This time of year is fun as we are in the middle of the NFL and college football seasons and the playoffs for Major League Baseball. Two New York teams I am fans of, the Yankees and the New York “Football” Giants, are having great seasons. Plus, I was raised a Dodger fan (my Mother rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers) and they are in the playoffs … and I’m also a lifelong Notre Dame fan (my Father was a Notre Dame fan) who play USC at home this week. This is a great weekend to be a sports junkie. read more…
Obamacare will be paid for with the "calcified silos of profits" from Insurance companies?
It is difficult watching the various discussions on “health care reform.” With health care back in the spotlight as the top story, so too comes the insane language the Left needs to use in order to push through this scheme.
Almost everything one hears about health care is a lie.
First, Medicare will be made smaller no matter what happens. Therefore, when Republicans defend Medicare in the service of (correctly) opposing the Democrats’ plan, it is dishonest. Any government program which gives consumers more of something than it costs to create will, naturally, be very popular. But Medicare is unsustainable at its current growth rate. Since senior citizens are the most passionately opposed to the Democratic plan, we won’t hear anything negative about Medicare from Republicans any time soon. read more…
