House of Eratosthenes

Throughout most of yesterday I heard & read of speculation here & there that the democrats were going to start rising up to pass a health care bill this year, because very late the night before a profound, meaningful thing happened. The question “what problem is this supposed to solve?” got answered. Ha ha! No, that’s a little joke right there. Of course that didn’t happen. What happened was that Ted Kennedy started taking his scheduled course in swimming lessons from Mary Jo.

How long before the democrats would start a campaign to revive their terminally ill stinky albatross health care bill under some misguided platform of “Let’s win this one for the swimmer”? How long before we started an autumn of misery, constantly hearing the refrain that although no one can justify this Obamacare plan any better after The Swimmer’s demise, than they could before…that we just gotta do it for dear old Uncle Ted?

Now we have our answer: One stinkin’ day.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed Wednesday to push through embattled health reform legislation this year following the death of Senator Ted Kennedy, who called the effort “the cause of my life”.

“Ted Kennedy’s dream of quality health care for all Americans will be made real this year because of his leadership and his inspiration,” Pelosi said in a statement.

Senate President Pro Tem Robert Byrd joined in the fun.

Ailing Senator Robert Byrd, one of only two to have served longer than Kennedy, suggests in an emotional statement renaming the pending health care legislation for the late Massachusetts Senator:

In his honor and as a tribute to his commitment to his ideals, let us stop the shouting and name calling and have a civilized debate on health care reform which I hope, when legislation has been signed into law, will bear his name for his commitment to insuring the health of every American.

Evidence of a parallel universe — one in which debates can be “civilized,” or debates can grapple meaningfully with the consequences of implementing a proposed plan. But it’s one or the other. Those are mutually exclusive things. Pondering the ramifications of doing something, is inherently uncivilized.

It really is democrat politicians against The People. All people; white, black, rich, poor. Every left-wing politician’s argument, it seems, is a distraction away from the “If we do this, that thing will happen” that is central to all responsible planning. Their talking points seem to systematically address all concerns in the universe except that.

Now we have to pass a bad bill to put a smile on the face of Kennedy’s ghost.

My question is: How about putting smiles on the faces of people who actually have to live with the laws that are being passed? And pay for them? Part of the democrat party world-view seems to be that by passing just the right law to force people to do something, you can make those people into a better class of people…more morally inspired and pristine…because of what they are forced to do. The reality is that laws don’t, and cannot, do that. But laws certainly can kill a lot of dreams.

So here’s an idea. Here’s another way to affix the health care debate to Kennedy’s passing. How about this: Ted Kennedy, like our health care debate, lived a long, full life and is now dead. The decent thing to do is to bury them both. Anyone who wants to live in a country that provides universal health care, there are scores of other nations they can live. True, some of those nations are desperately trying to find ways to do things the American way…but for the time being, if you want to wait half a year to get an MRI, you have your pick of where to do your waiting. Let’s honor Ted Kennedy’s memory and send all our universal-health care advocates to those places. Maybe drive them there over a bridge.

“Let’s honor Ted Kennedy’s memory and send all our universal-health care advocates to those places. Maybe drive them there over a bridge.”

No there’s a plan I can get on board with!
- tim | 08/27/2009 @ 06:33
Every left-wing politician’s argument, it seems, is a distraction away from the “If we do this, that thing will happen” that is central to all responsible planning.

Or, responsible to all central planning.

Now we have to pass a bad bill to put a smile on the face of Kennedy’s ghost.

I’ve got ONE question. “Who ya gonna call?”

Part of the democrat party world-view seems to be that by passing just the right law to force people to do something, you can make those people into a better class of people…more morally inspired and pristine…because of what they are forced to do.

Morgan, Morgan. It’s not “part of the democrat-party world-view.”

It’s frigging central to what the entire secular-left believes. Remember who these people are. They think that man is inherently good, that he is pefect-able, that utopia is just around the corner. That it’s all just a matter of passing the right legislation, coming up with the right form of government, or electing (or installing by force) the right leader to run it. They believe that the “inspiring” leadership they present can cause people to put aside personal avarice and self-centeredness, not to mention their own survival instincts.

The millions of old and terminally-ill people who will have to be sacrificed along the way to healthcare utopia, are no different than the undesirables that Hitler and Stalin herded into concentration camps to be disposed of.
- cylarz | 08/27/2009 @ 08:23
It’s like you said, Morgan, “Liberals. Always one revolution away from happiness. Always.”
- cylarz | 08/27/2009 @ 08:25
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- House of Eratosthenes | 08/27/2009 @ 18:13
Reid: Kennedy’s Death “Going to Help Us”…

In an interview with The Reno Gazette-Journal, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) when asked, “How will U.S. Sen. (Edward) Kennedy’s death affect things?
I think it’s going to help us. He hasn’t been around for some time. We’re…
- Caffeinated Thoughts | 09/01/2009 @ 14:26
Reid: Kennedy’s Death “Going to Help Us”…

In an interview with The Reno Gazette-Journal, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) when asked, “How will U.S. Sen. (Edward) Kennedy’s death affect things?
I think it’s going to help us. He hasn’t been around for some time. We’re…
- Caffeinated Thoughts | 09/01/2009 @ 14:26
Reid: Kennedy’s Death “Going to Help Us”…

In an interview with The Reno Gazette-Journal, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) when asked, “How will U.S. Sen. (Edward) Kennedy’s death affect things?
I think it’s going to help us. He hasn’t been around for some time. We’re…
- Caffeinated Thoughts | 09/01/2009 @ 14:27

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