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“Going Nuclear”

In the health care debate, just saying, No, hasn’t been enough as the Heritage Foundation reports of impending Democrat skullduggery:

According to an independent
analysis of Senate Democrat public statements on the public option, that raises the number of Democrats on record supporting a public option from 47 to 49. Moreover, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), chairmen of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, told the liberal “Bill Press Radio Show” yesterday that Democrats “comfortably” have the remaining votes to reach 51 and pass a public plan once the debate moves to the House floor.

Going ‘nuclear’ is an option the Democrats are able, and willing, to take to disenfranchise 53% of Americans who find government intrusion into the health care of the American public offense, dictatorial, and wrong.

The Democrat powers have been saying, “What? I can’t hear or seeing anything, but a swastika waving, hatemongering, racism infested mob.” From the Left, free speech from peaceful demonstrators must be intimidating, so they’ve had to turn good ol’ fashion American dissenters into club wielding criminals.

In the past, when saying, “No,” hasn’t been enough against government intrusion, the people have pushed back, and should be expected to do so in a democratically principled society.

Americans don’t like to be told what to do, especially by government, and a tipping point has been reached, but that point has been reached in a different and unexpected area of the health care industry.

When the New York State government made the H1N1 or Swine Flue vaccination mandatory, its health care workers objected:

N.Y. Health Care Workers Revolt Over H1N1 Vaccine

The 500, 000 health care workers, who are mandated to receive the serum, this is an issue over individual rights, liberty and their bodies.

Should these health care workers receive the vaccination? Well, if a reasonable dialog, had been made by a reasonable government to allay fears, the result should’ve been, “Yes,” and the workers probably would’ve assented

But, no, we have a threat from government bureaucracy:

Workers are being told to either get the swine flu vaccine or lose their jobs.

It’s easy for the government to make regulations and policy and say, “You’re fired!” But what if half a million workers say, “Okay,” and then walk away? Blaming the health care workers will be so easy, and the MSM media with be right there pointing the incriminating finger.

But the fact of the matter is an intrusive state government has created the potential for serious problems, and if this kind of high-handed and superior behavior moves to the Federal level, the phrase ‘Nuclear Option’ takes on a whole new meaning.

Portuguese anyone?

Brazil, the largest nation on the South American continent wants a piece of the Olympic action. Being the most stable nation on that continent Brazil has earned that right, having evolved from Portuguese colony to Monarchy to military state to a successful and leading economic power.

Of course, it’s not paradise being that there is a high crime rate and uneven distribution of its wealth, but in that respect, Chicago has . . . issues. The recent beating to death of a sixteen year old comes to mind. An August Illinois Department of Employment Security report puts unemployment at 10.0 percent.

Pitting the whole of Brazil against one U.S. city is going overboard. It’s unfair. But all the same the President of the United States still sees it as necessary to fly off to Copenhagen pitch for a Chicago Olympic venue. Should the president be doing that? Well, why not? Nothing wrong with that, but there do seem to be more pressing issues, which come to mind such as the 9-plus national unemployment rate, a floundering economy, a stagnating and degenerating Afghan war, missile tests and nuclear material refining in Iran, and the list goes on.

Brazil has been put into a difficult situation recently with its government’s “handling of the Honduran crisis as senior lawmakers accuse it of allowing the ousted president [Manuel Zelaya] to use its embassy as a political platform.” Zelaya is ‘accused of seeking to change the law to allow him to stand for a second term.’ President Obama has made statements in support of the ousted Honduran president, also. The situation has yet to play itself out on the world stage.

But in the world of international amateur sports this is all to do about nothing. Really. No sarcasm intended. The Olympics can and should be held in any country willing to foot the bill. I think Brazil deserves the opportunity, and I’m willing to learn Portuguese, if by 2016, I can still afford a ticket. So, what do you think?

Obama Drops Missile Defense and Allies

In April, the Poles have sent more troops, and given financial aid to Obama’s war in Afghanistan, which at this time the president doesn’t have any plan. Poles have suffered causalities as recently well, so Obama’s dropping of the ABMS shows a sudden and highly level of unreliability. The Poles don’t need Obama or Afghanistan.

As Obama’s focus on a losing health care scheme is hurting him domestically, while the Republicans and conservatives in general are benefiting. Foreign policy and militarily, Democrats are historically seen by the American public as handling those affairs badly. Obama’s decision on the ABMS reinforces that.

Putin got what he wanted, a highly visible and internationally public win. Obama, again, damaged relations with traditional and new allies.

Israeli could care less about an ABMS based in Eastern Europe. Israeli needs to build, build and build, spread out for the sake of its own defense. Israeli is in a situation Obama is only exacerbating, through bad policy judgments and again, damaging a traditional ally. Israeli will have to play its own hand without Obama. They’re basically doing that already.

At play in the field of Education

The president’s intention of making an ‘inspirational’ speech to the youth of American on September 8th hit a wall.

President Obama's plan to inspire the nation's schoolchildren with a video
address next week erupted into controversy Wednesday, forcing the White House to
pull out its eraser and rewrite a government recommendation that teachers
nationwide assign students a paper on how to "help the president."

Presidential aides acknowledged the White House helped the U.S. Education Department craft the proposal, which immediately was met by fierce criticism from Republicans and conservative organizations who accused Mr. Obama of trying to politicize the education system.

[…]

Among the activities the government initially suggested for prekindergarten to sixth-grade students: that they " write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president."

[…]

By Wednesday evening, the sentence asking children to think about how they can "help the president" had been replaced. The rewritten line said students should "write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals.

If the Founding Fathers had thought of it, there would be a clause in the Constitution reading, “There shall be no entrenchment of any political ideology contrary to the Constitution of the United State.” But they couldn’t have imagined a Department of Education, let alone a president being in cahoots with that same department, hoping to influence the young minds of America.

Education should not be a political playground. But it’s too late for that by virtue of the Left’s domination of public and secondary education institutions.

Being good citizens and stewards requests vigilance, and as Andrew Jackson once said:

"[…] eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must
pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government."

We are often reminded to tell our children not to talk to strangers. We must also endeavor to keep people from passing on strange ideas on to them as well.

Paranoia and Conspiracies

Something’s you just can’t make up. Liberals see conspiracies—‘right-wing’ conspiracies everywhere. And these conspiracies are, in many cases, vast.

Paranoia is an incredible thing to observe. Watch the news, every network but Fox News, because Fox is part of it. Talk radio is all of it. Especially, Limbaugh. He’s every negative ‘ism’ that can be thoughts of or created in a moments notice.

But what are seen as conspiracies by the Left, are they actually conspiracies ala Illuminati or Freemasons? Or are facts, in your fact reality, simply the garlic and cross to the Left’s vampire lock-step think?

What prompted this line of thought? Well, here:

The Kopechne Effect
By Robert Stacy McCain:

Thursday afternoon,
libertarian journalist David Weigel sent out a message on Twitter that struck me as profound: "The proliferation of liberal media watchdogs has led to much, much, much more repetition of what conservatives say."

Watchdogging is perhaps the sincerest form of media flattery. If what was written and said by conservatives on the Internet, radio and TV had no influence on public discourse, liberals would not be constantly monitoring Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin. What is amusing, to anyone directly familiar with the haphazard operating environment of right-wing communications, is the liberal suspicion that everything conservatives do is carefully orchestrated.

By all means read the rest, but for my point, the last like of the second paragraph states it all. Yes, I’ve could’ve written the same thing but Mr. Stacy McCain has a venue with a great audience and reach.

Also, keep in mind the topic, Mary Jo Kopechne, a death which haunted Kennedy and stained his career, and the fact that he walked away from the accident he caused, well, Ted Kennedy is one of the few secular demigods, the Left had, alive, and now dead, he still has some value as a bucket to bale water from the sinking SS ObamaCare.

What most people understand is, a conspiracy is what I needed when you’re making a serious effort to trick someone, anyone. Right now, what does the Right have to trick anyone for? Least of all the public.

The Obama Administration is pulling every string, twisting every arm, and pulling everyone from business owners to the average citizen. We actually have a conspiracy unfolding before our eyes, if we care to see it. Most citizens have. That’s why the president and the Democrat congress poll numbers are sinking.

Rogue Democrat Vandal

With Democrats, everything is planned. From Astroturfing, to ‘Nazi’ name calling, to union thuggery, nothing is left to chance. Step by step the assault against anyone, even against average Americans is calculated and deliberate. Nothing is left to chance. But the fabricated indignation seems to be taking on an unexpected and unwanted life of its own:

One of two people suspected of shattering 11 windows Tuesday morning at the
state Democratic Party headquarters has an arrest record and a history of
helping a Democratic political candidate, public records show.

Police said that about 2:20 a.m., 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, now in custody, and an at-large accomplice took a hammer to the picture windows displaying posters touting President Barack Obama and his health care reform efforts.

Early Tuesday, Democratic Party chairwoman Pat Waak said the damage to her building in Denver's art district was a consequence of "an effort on the other side to stir up hate." She tempered her statement after Schwenkler's political history was revealed.

It becomes difficult to deflect the blame, especially when the facts are right in one’s face.

Between Maurice Schwenkler work at the local bicycle cooperative, which is around the corner from the Democrat headquarters, he has had time in the past to unlawfully assembly charge at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, and canvass for a losing Democrat candidate for a nominal fee of $500 bucks.

Schwenkler is obviously revved up for the cause, but what Schwenkler did was unplanned, dangerous, and he got caught. In stirring up the rabble, the Democrats may have created something they can’t control.