So yesterday the comment was made that there would be some kind of health care legislation and how would it change our current situation…..My take is that there will be no legislation at all, simply because no politician will be willing to vote “yes” on any legislation concerning changing of our health care. Since the DNC and it’s minions couldn’t push the thing through quickly and early, then they have lost the initiative and anything related to such a bill is toxic….The “third rail” of politics…..No politician who wants to get elected in 2010 or even 2012 will vote for any health care bill. Even in so-called blue states.

So ultimately, since the votes won’t be there, they will table things for a year or so and try again…All the while claiming “victory” .

The thing is, if they really want to change things for the better, and help people be insured, then there are a lot of reform opportunities available, just none that will make splashy headlines.. Tort reform, changing regulations to allow better purchasing, co-ops, streamlined regulations, etc. But do they ever propose this? Nope.

The real thing is, is this about helping people or about power?? Ultimately, I think it is about power and control over you and me. Control over your health care is control over you. And for a socialist, (or if you prefer, a statist) control over the individual by the state is everything…

The thing is with these people, they never give up and they never stop. They are back year after year, trying each and every time they think that they get a chance.

Let’s not let them have that chance.

Finally got a chance to post……Had to do a hack on the Prius to get the electric only mode to work….This might just save me some real significant amounts of gas….

I’d have posted sooner, but getting home I had all number of chores to do, and little time to post last night. Then today, as I said, I had the install to do on the Prius and then cooking….grilled steak with angel hair pasta and grilled peppers with mushrooms, onions and green onion shoots….

Had a great time a the BlogMeet yesterday (Sunday). If you are in the area and can attend the next one, I HIGHLY recommend spending time with these folks. Intelligent, well spoken, interesting, well thought out people.

I met Roberta (of course) and Old Grouch, and Shermlock, and One MansVote, and a few others….

While some are smart asses (all in good fun!!!), they are all highly intelligent, very entertaining, and worth the time to meet. I hope to be able to make the time to do other BlogMeets. But the drive is about 1:45 so it can be problematic.

Many thoughts whirled around the table that few hours, and many things were discussed. We didn’t solve the world’s issues, but we discussed many of them and it was good, and the food was excellent. I followed Roberta’s lead in getting the buffalo burger with mushrooms, cheese and bacon (MMMM, Bacon!).

Go, if you can.

If not, you’ll be the poorer the next day.

Go here to see more….

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Via Roberta X comes this tidbit regarding health care, and the fact that the story we are getting may not be the whole entire unvarnished truth…..

BBBbbbut the DNC and it’s minions wouldn’t LIE would they? Or the President?

Today is, BTW, Constitution Day.

222 years ago today, 39 brave men signed a document that gave meaning to the new nation. 222 years ago today, those brave men signed their names to a document which set the framework for a nation that grew faster than any other in the world, and attracted the best, brightest, strongest, gutsiest, most productive people in the world from their home countries in the quest for freedom. They built a country which, in only a century and a half, became arguably the strongest, most productive, most free nation in the world.

In signing that document, those men made life better for those who had the courage and intestinal fortitude to make the move from their homes in the search for a better life. In the 1800’s it was, generally, a one way trip. Yet thousands upon thousands chose to move to this new land of opportunity and freedom, created and sheltered by the words placed on that document. Poles, Russians, Germans, Englishmen, Chinese, Greeks, Africans……. Hindu and Muslim, Buddhist and Christian….From all continents they came, in the quest for freedom and opportunity that the Constitution promised.

Let us all take the time to thank those brave men, and to thank whatever deity you speak to that they had the courage to create that document and to make it the law of the land.

And let us never let the defense of that wonderful document ever become anything other than our highest priority, even unto revolution against those in government who would ignore it or circumvent its meaning.

Perhaps even the house is able to see whats what….Or perhaps they are deciding to get in front of this, and sacrifice ACORN to keep the rest of us voters happy.

Either way, it is a great thing that the issues with ACORN have finally been made public enough that even the MSM decided to report on it…of course, it is sad that the media is so in the pocket of the liberals that it took 2 youngsters to do the MSM’s work for them. Its not like there were any real surprises in the allegations against the folks from ACORN…

Of course, the bills are not compatible between the House and Senate, and they will, if we allow it, probably quietly let the issue die without reconciling them, but only if We The People lat them….

Now….the real question:

Will Mr. Obama have the gall, the effrontery to veto this bill, if and when? Or will he throw his friends, colleagues and staunch supporters to the wolves….

Either way, this is great news.

BTW, to see how your representative voted, go HERE

So I have a suggestion to all you liberals who seem to think that everyone should pay taxes, and that it’s ok to decrease health care for those of us who work for it to give health care to those who either don’t or who cannot afford it:

Here’s the thing…You are welcome to work as hard as you wish, but if you think that we all should pay more taxes, then please, set an example. Feel free to pay all of your income to the government, keeping only enough to keep you above the poverty line.

Feel free to take the time to claim an uninsured person as a dependent on your insurance….Hell, claim 6 or seven on the family plan.

Just leave my money and my health insurance alone.

For you liberals making 6 or more figures…..Please re-read the above. spend your income like you want the rest of us to. You really don’t need that McMansion, or the three (or more) cars…The boat, the condo on the lake, etc..

Put your money where your politics are.

Or else just shut up and go away.

The difference (at least one of the many) between conservatives and liberals…..illustrated.

So the right has made a statement…..Will anyone listen? We conservatives have, with our tea parties, and now the march on Washington of something in excess of 1.8 million people, made our first statement. Will the current officials take heed? Will the GOP party officials? One would have to estimate that each of those who attended could easily represent 10 or more people, perhaps as many as a hundred. If so, at least 18 million people and as many as 180 million dislike the current direction of more tax and spend and more big government. We want change, but not the kind that is currently in the wind. People are angry. They were unhappy with George W. Bush, and are even more unhappy with Mr Obama’s ideas. Health care, Cap and Trade, Stimulus. Enough is enough. Stop, already.

Or will this die down and die before the 2010 election and will we as a people choose to elect more of the same?

One thing I hope that we can shout to our officials is that we are here, and we won’t go away. We have been told that we, each of us, was alone in our anger and protest. We know better now. We know that each of us has tens (hundreds?) of thousands of sisters and brothers who feel the same anger, and the same frustration. Each of us now knows that we are not alone.

Will the GOP and the libertarians learn a lesson here? Will they give us more of the same….More RHINO’s and more Democrat Lite? Will they learn and support those who would truly represent what the people want and seek? Or will they choose to again throw the opportunity away, and give the people an even less appealing candidate than the trash that the DNC throws to us for a choice of representative in 20 10 and 2012 and, in 2 years, president in 2012? Or will they present us with a choice that we can get behind, choose to support and campaign for, and who is electable? I mention the RNC and the Libertarians, because the DNC is apparently a lost cause….

Will the leadership in the Senate and the House decide to listen, or will they stubbornly choose the direction which they have taken lately….Ignore the constituents and make decisions according to party lines and politically traded favors? One would think that these men who have been elected to represent us are intelligent to make the choice that keeps them elected. Yet evidence shows otherwise. Will this protest make a difference? Or will it be ignored by incumbents and political parties alike?

We can choose to elect others, if we are given a choice, or if we choose to vote against the current party structure. Let us hope we can have a candidate (or candidates) for which we do not have to hold our nose, but rather one which we can enthusiastically support.

Before there is a revolution.

SRSLY.

Keep pissing us off, next time there will be 5 million. Then things might get ugly.

BTW, anyone notice that the trash left by this group is about 1% of the trash left by the attendees of the inauguration or that of the election party in Chicago? Perhaps the conservatives folks are really more green that the liberals…

This is, I know, long. I hope that you read it. I hope it makes you think.

The day was 9-11-09. It was a beautiful morning. A normal day. No one knew that this would be
the day that we in the US finally took notice of the war the Islamist radicals had declared on
us years ago.

A war it had been, just an ineffective war. Like flies buzzing around us, we ignored them,
occasionally swatting at them, neither side having much effect on the other. We as a nation
took no real notice of the danger, and we ignored those who would harm us. The warning signs
were there, and we had been given plenty of notice by the other side in their previous
attacks. But ignore them we did.

No more. On that day, we learned, we took notice. But did we, as a nation, learn?
I remember thinking that it was a terrible accident, that morning, seeing the pictures on TV.
But knowing nothing, I left for work, not realizing that we were at war. I though it was just
another day, albeit one in which a errant airliner had had an accident.

At work about an hour later, I remember my employee telling me…”another one! Another plane
just hit the other tower!”. I knew then, that very moment, that we were at war. I said to my
staff “the world as you know it has just changed, nothing will be the same after this day”.

Was I right?

Have we changed? For a few months after the attacks, we pulled together as a nation, as a
people.

But how soon we forget.

Sadly, 8 years later, most have forgotten the horror that we all felt that day. Sadly, we
forgot the fear and anger that pulled us together. Islamic radicals are far away, being bled
and distracted by our finest young men and women, in a place most of us don’t really care
about. We care little that our soldiers are undergoing deprivation and are under constant
deadly danger in order that we might have the luxury to forget.

And forget we have.

The additional security at airports, while probably ineffective (we really don’t know or have
any way to measure), is just an additional irritation to the ordeal of flying somewhere…. No
one has really cared about the changes in the alert level…green, orange, yellow, red… We
really pay little notice and care even less. Do you know, right now, what the current “color
of the day” is? Do you care?

No one knows what the Bush administration has done to protect us, or the Obama administration either….How many successes have they had, of which we know nothing? How many plots foiled? All we know is that there have been no major attacks on our soil since that day.

Yet.

All that they (the islamists) have to do to succeed in elevating our fear and terror is to
succeed one more time. Until then, we might never know how many times our government has
successfully guarded us. We will only know if they fail.

Perhaps then we as a nation will remember, and pull together once more, forgetting our petty
squabbles and turning as one people to face a common enemy.

From where I sit, we have forgotten. We as a nation have let the lessons of that day slip from
our consciousness, and fall away to the abyss of obscurity. And for that, I am ashamed.

Individuals may still remember, many, such as myself, will never forget. But most, fed drivel
by the mainstream media, have indeed forgotten the horror and anger of that terrible day.

I have not forgotten. Have you?

Have your forgotten the day where we, the most powerful nation were attacked by a few men
using our own airplanes against us? Have you forgotten the fear, the anger (and yes, the hate)
that flowed like water that day? Have you forgotten that while on the first two planes people
(as far as we know) did not fight back, when the truth became known to the third set of
passengers that instead of being sheep, some occupants of that third airplane became wolves
instead and fought back? Can you remember the fact that for a short time, we became one people instead of blue or red, and for once, acted as a nation instead of a bunch of selfish, childish, individuals?

I have not forgotten. I remember those days with horror, and anger, and pride. Many have
forgotten, and many more will in the years to come.

I won’t. Ever.

Will you?