Is it the Fourth of July or Independence Day? Don’t ask the RNC.

July 4, 2012 by Leave a comment

As Obamacare marches civil society down the Green Mile toward the nanny state death of soft tyranny, Republicans have been arguing whether to identify the uniformed officers next to us as security guards or policemen.

On the issue of whether to call the individual mandate a “tax” or a “penalty,” Republicans—like Democrats before last week’s Supreme Court ruling—are trying to have it both ways.

Republicans are seeking to have it both ways like Democrats during oral argument. Like John Roberts during the ruling. Like Democrats after the ruling.

Obamacare is the new social justice, but not in the way liberals intended. Instead, like social justice, no one can say for sure what it means, but that won’t stop them from using it as a rhetorical sledgehammer. Even Nancy “pass it to find out what’s in it” Pelosi was overwhelmed by the 2700-page Pandora’s Box of Orwellian doublethink.

RNC Chair Reince Priebus also jumps down the rabbit hole into Democrat Wonderland (though not for the first time): Read more of this post

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Enough with the Obamacare ruling’s silver linings

July 2, 2012 by 4 Comments

In Obamacare, the Supreme Court entered a world of paradox matched only by the nonsensical universe of quantum mechanics. Schrodinger’s cat is a famous thought experiment that according to quantum theory suggests that a cat in a box is simultaneously dead and alive until you open the box. Similarly, Obamacare’s individual mandate according to the federal government was simultaneously a tax and not a tax in court proceedings, until Chief Justice John Roberts issued his opinion and declared it a tax.

Yet conservative pundits are telling us to hang on to the silver lining.

Silver linings sound wonderful. Enlightened and positive people see them as small beacons of hope glimmering through harsh reality. The problem is that silver linings are accompanied by roiling masses of mile-high thunderstorms spanning several states that sweep through the mid-Atlantic in a dark red Doppler line, leaving a devastating warpath of death and destruction from which power companies still haven’t recovered. (bonus irony points for running straight through Washington, DC).

Even worse, the silver linings may not exist.  Read more of this post

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Weekly Breakdown: A Taxing Week for Chief Justice John Roberts

June 29, 2012 by 1 Comment

  • English: President George W. Bush announces fr...Chief Justice John Roberts submitted an application to the New Yorker to have a glowing feature story written about how his incredibly “thoughtful” and “reasonable” demeanor have finally “brought credibility back to the Supreme Court.”
  • Chief Justice John Roberts published a long love note to President Obama. Even though Obama already voted against his Supreme Court confirmation and insulted him to his face in front of the entire country during the 2010 State of the Union address. In response, Justices Alito, Scalia, Thomas, and Kennedy bought Roberts a DVD of the hit movie He’s Just Not That Into You, saying “This is getting weird. You’re making us all uncomfortable. Please watch the movie.”
  • Chief Justice John Roberts finally released his much-anticipated 1984 II, a novel about a dystopian future with doublethink arguments where a statute is defined as either a tax or a regulation depending on which day it is. The arguments are initially laughed at by the court and mocked by the press, but are later solidified by Supreme Court opinion as double-plus good truths. Former President Bill Clinton’s blurb on the back cover says, “Is this a book you’ll like? It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.”
  • Theories abounded that the Obamacare dissent was originally written as the majority opinion, before one of the votes in favor of striking the law changed his mind. In a related story, researchers located the last person in the country still swayed by President Obama’s speeches. His name is Chief Justice John Roberts. Read more of this post

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Ease our troubles, that’s what Obamacare do

June 18, 2012 by Leave a comment

In Charles Murray’s 2009 AEI speech “The Happiness of the People”, he simply but brilliantly describes the main purpose of the European Social Democrat state as “taking some of the trouble out of things”. The problem with this, which he discusses at length, stems from family, community, vocation or faith being sapped of some of their vitality and meaning with each instance of government intervention into those spheres.

In the latest sympathy piece on the potential effects of Obamacare being overturned by the Supreme Court, CNN puts Murray’s concerns on full display:

Millions of young adults have turned to their parents’ health insurance plans since the Affordable Care Act went into effect. For Liz Wilson, and many others her age, it was the only option.

Wilson, 25, gets health care for a chronic stomach and pancreas problems through a provision in the law that lets young adults stay on their parents’ insurance plans until age 26. After graduating from college in 2010, she took a temp job in Cincinnati that doesn’t offer benefits. A key piece of the Affordable Care Act went into place the following September, allowing her to get coverage for her mounting medical bills under her parents’ plan.

“I have to keep a close eye on things, which requires a lot of doctors’ visits and maintenance medicines,” Wilson said. “Without health reform, I’d really have to ask myself what I’d do.”

That last quote could just as easily read, “Without the government, I’d have to take responsibility for something important in my life.” But as government takes more of “the trouble out of things”, we’re programming a society into accepting the premise that nothing important in life is worth earning, or struggling for. And we’re left with the impression that it’s a tragic injustice for Ms. Wilson to be forced to budget for regular doctor visits.  Read more of this post

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The lie of comprehensive solutions strikes again

May 2, 2012 by 2 Comments

Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal...

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Scott Brown taking advantage of a health care policy that he supports is just as bad as Elizabeth Warren, a white person, pretending she is a Cherokee Indian to gain affirmative action benefits. Wow, that sounds ridiculous when you put in one statement how ABCNews frames their coverage of the story:

The hits keep coming in Massachusetts. After facing her own controversy for questions about her Native-American heritage, Elizabeth Warren, the likely Democratic nominee in the Massachusetts Senate race, has accused Sen. Scott Brown of being a hypocrite after he told the Boston Globe that he still insures his 23-year-old daughter, Ayla, on his health care plan. Brown is the Republican senator whose election in January, 2010, broke the Democrats filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, forcing them to re-organize their plan for passing health care legislation. During his tenure in Congress, he has voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act three times, a provision of which allows children to stay on their health care until they turn 26.

Obamacare has another 2699 pages or so dealing with other “provisions of which” that Senator Brown may find objectionable, and certainly those can factor into his decision-making. Or not: Read more of this post

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