Important Stuff -- Or Not: Oh, Unholy Night

Monday, December 21, 2009

Oh, Unholy Night

It is 4 am Sunday and the light atop the Capitol Building across the street is still burning, indicating the Senate is still up to no good. Three hours ago, the Democrats voted to stop debate on health care "reform" -- not that all that much debate was allowed. Through a series of "compromises" -- if by compromise, you mean arm-twisting, closed door deals, vote-buying and bribes -- they finally got the 60 votes they needed to rubber-stamp the legislation. The last holdout was that principled Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson, who announced Saturday that he had decided to support the bill in exchange for a variety of "concessions" -- if by concessions, you mean bribes. The pro-life Senator's objection to public financing of abortion suddenly evaporated when he was told Nebraska would be forever exempt from the cost of covering an expanded Medicaid population at what one Democratic official estimated at $45 million over a decade. Who picks up the tab? All the other states, of course. Nelson isn't up for reelection until 2012. Hope Nebraska can stay focused until then. Politicians go to prison for buying votes and accepting bribes from the public. So, why don't they go to prison for buying votes and accepting bribes from each other? The final vote to pass the Senate bill will take place probably on Christmas eve. Then the Senate breaks for the holidays, and won't be back in session until next year -- an election year. Politicians are notorious for not wanting to pass significant legislation during an election year. The Senate bill still has to be melded with the House bill before it comes up for a final vote and Obama's signature. Ah, but the fix could be in there too. Pelosi said last week that she is no longer going to stick her neck out and will let the Senate lead on controversial votes. We still have a long way to go before we see the end of this.

2 comments:

Mark said...: Seems our so-called Representatives in Congress are bound and determined to pass this scam whether we like it or not.

I predict there will be a lot of new faces after the next election.

That is, if we are all still allowed to vote.; 7:23 AM
Lone Ranger said...: It's just befuddling how these people would blow up their political careers to pass this mess. And when I am befuddled, I fall back on my Truths About Liberals.

#7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

These people are getting a big enough payoff that they will be set up for life if they are kicked to the curb. I just don't know how.; 5:17 PM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.