Spreading Around The Wealth

Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) admits that Obamacare is going to redistribute income.

"Too often, much of late, the last couple three years, the mal-distribution of income in America is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy, and the middle income class is left behind. Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America. This legislation will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America."

Equality doesn't mean that you have equal outcomes, it means that you have equal opportunities. The Progressives want equal outcomes, but since they are not able to make everyone wealthy, they take from the wealthy to buy votes from the poor and un-industrious. The only equality that we will have under Progressive policies is the equality of being equally miserable.

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No More Death By Lack Of Insurance, Right?

Megan McArdle has a great item in The Atlantic in which she points out that, since the proponents of Obamacare noted statistics such as American life expectancy and mortality rates as arguments for the need of such legislation, we should be seeing improvments in all of those areas following the passage of Obamacare.

Judging by the statistics that have been used to sell this thing, over and over, liberals are expecting big things.

1) Ezra Klein is confidently predicting that it will save hundreds of thousands of lives.
2) Nick Kristoff expects miraculous improvement in our national life expectancy.
3) Michael Moore thinks this will stop people from getting thrown out of their homes in a Medical bankruptcy.
4) At least one of you must be willing to claim massive improvements in infant mortality, after you've cited those statistics to me over and over.

I think that this is a great point. I may need to start pulling together some stats that were used by the Leftists to push their Obamacare agenda, and then present the target stats that one should expect now that Obamacare has been enacted. If their claims were correct, we will certainly start seeing a longer life expectancy rate, lower mortality rates, fewer people dying due to "lack of insurance," reduced medical bankruptcies, and other quality-of-life improvements now that their will has been imposed.

Use their own words to defeat them.

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Guess Who Has Been Sober For 209 Days?

If you guessed Senator Ted Kennedy, you are absolutely correct.

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Bought Stupak?

Was Bart Stupak's vote for Obamacare purchased? I just saw this little nugget on Stupak's House site.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) announced three airports in northern Michigan have received grants totaling $726,409 for airport maintenance and improvements. The funding was provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration.

Yep. I'm calling him Bought Stupak from now on.

Vote for Dan Benishek in Michigan's 1st District in November!

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IRS Needs More Shotguns?

I know that I've been on hiatus, but this Obamacare B.S. is making me extremely upset. In the legislation that the Democrats just voted for, the IRS is being designated as the enforcement agency for their power-grab. The IRS is supposed to get an additional 16,000 to 17,000 more agents due to this happy situation.

Then I see that the FBO put a posting online in early February for new shotguns for the IRS.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.

I know that it's for a mere 60 shotguns, but it will only take one face-off between the IRS and someone who didn't pay a fine after he didn't prove he had health insurance to the satisfaction of the government, and that order will increase by a factor of 10 or more.

Get ready to embrace the suck, everyone.

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More Lies, Less Freedom

If this so-called "health care reform" passes, we will all lose.

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More Global Warming B.S.

This is one of the big reasons why the GOP does not get a dime from me: They buy into the global warming (now called climate change because it has stopped warming) horse hooey.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) co-authored an op-ed in the New York Times with Senator John Kerry (D-MA) entitled Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation). The op-ed asserts that the authors, and possibly most Democrat and Republican politicians, agree that climate change is real. It goes on to say that even "climate change skeptics" should support reducing our dependence on foreign oil at least for our national security, and warns us that if Congress doesn't create cap-and-tax legislation, then the EPA will regulate industries to prevent more "climate change," and that the EPA won't be providing the incentives and credits that Congress can create through legislation.

In short, Sen. Graham is still trying to sell Democrat-Light as being a reasonable, compromising Republican. Caca de toro, Lindsey! (Thought I should put that in a language that the amnesty advocate would feel more comfortable with.) Once again, Republicans are making the mistake of embracing a load of crap that will seriously harm our economy in an attempt to win the hearts and minds (not to mention money and votes) of independents and conservative Democrats. The thing that Lindsey and his other career politician Republican pals are not understanding is that 1) there is still a lot of debate in the science community over global warming/climate change, and regardless of what Al Gore says, the science is not settled; 2) they are alienating a large portion of their base by jumping on the Democrats' bandwagon, trying to play it off as being less Democrat-like by wanting to help industry ease into "saving the planet" by providing incentives in amendments to a bill that is a big pay-off to the green lobby; and 3) when independents get hurt by Republicans going Democrat-Light, those independents don't see any functional difference between the two parties, and will support the party with the best spin (usually the Democrats), or neither party at all.

Good work, Republicans. Keep alienating segments of your base and hurting independents. When the house of cards comes falling down, the Democrats are going to blame Lindsey and his fellow Republicans for causing the problem by watering down their original proposal. Many independents will swallow the Democrats' spin and move away from the GOP, while large portions of conservatives continue to become more disillusioned with the party they once supported.

When 2010 rolls around, I will vote for conservative candidates who won't sell my daughter's future down the river on some ill-conceived Democrat pipe-dream. And if there is no candidate worth voting for, then I will write in John Galt.

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