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Go, Dan Benishek! Beat Bart Stupak!

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:30:51 AM
What'd I tell ya?  An article about Bart Stupak's challenger in the Wall Street Journal.

Prepare for the onslaught of the citizen statesmen.  Professional politicians, you are done.
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More concerns - this time about privacy.

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:22:49 AM
I think I'll move to a cash-basis for medical care.  Creepy.
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Lay the defeat at Republicans' feet

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:13:38 AM
Yup.  Had billions not been spent on wars, maybe Republicans could have done something about the looming health care crisis???  They ignored it completely.  That's what happens with lack of leadership.

Lots of people have said this, and it's true.  But Republicans deserved the drubbing they got in 2006 and 2008, and laid the groundwork for Obama's socialist takeover.

Returning the same lazy, visionless, self-absorbed slobs to power won't fix things.


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For once, Kathleen Parker is right

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:02:49 AM
Her article about Bart Stupak's "fall from grace" in the Washington Post today is unusually canny for Parker.  A couple of good passages:

The executive order promising that no federal funds will be used for abortion is utterly useless, and everybody knows it. First, the president can revoke it as quickly as he signs it.

and

One can reasonably surmise that Obama, a former constitutional law professor, is well aware of the uselessness of his promise. Perhaps this is why he didn't mention it during the bill-signing ceremony Tuesday.

and

Ironically, the day before the vote, Obama said: "We are not bound to win, but we are bound to be true. We are not bound to succeed, but we are bound to let whatever light we have shine."

Democrats were bound to win, all right, but truth and light had nothing to do with it.

Heavens!  Has Parker just admitted that The Anointed One has -- *gasp!* -- lied?????

But here's the best one:

After the Sunday vote, a group of Democrats, including Stupak, gathered in a pub to celebrate. In a biblical moment, New York Rep. Anthony Weiner was spotted planting a big kiss on Stupak's cheek.

To a Catholic man well versed in the Gospel, this is not a comforting gesture.

Um, yeah.  Especially two weeks before Easter.

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Why totalitarianism/martial law will be inevitable

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:44:45 AM
Because Obama/Pelosi/Reid have promised things to whole segments of the American population that they cannot pay for.  Jim Talent explains it here.

When the rationing starts, or the money runs out, there will be blood.

And then, the country we have known will be over.

And that, my friends, is why this abomination must be stopped now, and federal spending rolled back.
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WE WILL NOT BE CONTROLLED!

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:04:21 AM
Hear me out, you totalitarian sonuvab.i.t.c.h.  We will not be controlled.  Not ever.

This is treason.

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"barbaric totalitarianism" is what we will get

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 8:39:18 AM
under Obama's "Dreams of my Dictatorship."  Read interesting description here of American Marxists' attitudes.

These entitlement programs are hurtling toward bankruptcy.  Every single one of them.  "Health care," if it survives the impending legal challenges, will only take us there faster.

And what do you think will happen when the money runs out, folks?  When the government throws its hands up in the air and announces, "There's no more welfare, no more Social Security, no more food stamps, no more Section 8 housing, we've bled the golden goose dry"?

It will be war in the streets.  We'll be a third-world country.  And after that will come martial law or civil war.

That's our beautiful future under Obama's wonderful programs.
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More corporate control explanation from Jonah Goldberg

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 8:29:14 AM
Turning insurance companies into government contractors or public utilities.  Yep.
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Walter Williams and excessive government control.

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 8:26:47 AM
Walter Williams gets it right.  Those who complain about corporate influence over government need to realize that when government inserts itself into every aspect of business to the point of having the capacity to shut it down altogether (instead of fair regulation), then businesses turn their attention to pleasing government instead of pleasing us, the consumers.

Government should keep corporate abuses in check.  But confiscating the better part of the wealth created by business does not increase regulatory oversight.  It just makes founders, directors, shareholders, employees poorer, and creates the incentives to lobby and bribe that Williams describes.

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Mark Steyn on decline

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:56:05 AM
It's an impossible task to pick out the "best" passage in a Mark Steyn piece.  But here's a good one:

"Take a city like Vienna. Once upon a time it was an imperial capital. The empire busted up, but the capital still had magnificent architecture, handsome palaces, treasure houses of great art, a world-class orchestra, fabulous restaurants . . . who wouldn’t enjoy such “decline”? You benefit from all the accumulated capital of the past without being troubled by any of the tedious responsibilities. Have another coffee and a piece of strudel and watch the world go by. To be sure, everything new — or, at any rate, everything new that works — is invented and made elsewhere. But genteel decline from the heights can be eminently civilized, especially to those of a leftish bent."

Read the whole thing.
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Untended consequences? Update #1

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:42:38 AM
So, what happens to medical device manufacturers under the taxes imposed by Obamacare?  Byron York has one story here.

If you lose your job at Zoll, because they cannot grow, keep their current employee level and pay the new taxes, will you blame Obama and the Democrats in Congress and clamor for repeal?  Or will you say, "Whew!  Thank goodness my medical care isn't tied to employment anymore," and call for more federal legislation - this time, to mandate employment or to forbid the company from sending jobs overseas?

Federal legislation has consequences, and you can't legislate them away.  This is why Communism failed.

When the jobs go away because of the taxes, the Marxists will call for legislation to mandate employment.  When companies close because they cannot maintain employment levels, the Marxists will call for legislation to mandate that they stay open, even if they operate at a loss.  (Didn't we already do that?  "Too big to fail," right?)  When the companies don't even come into existence because of the onerous taxes and regulations, the Marxists will call for legislation that demands that they be created.  Or, better still, that people will just work for the government.  No matter what consequences the Marxists create, they will always blame someone else (everyone else is selfish and greedy) and call for more laws.

If the Marxists in Congress had their way, they'd tell you that they can legislate away aging, or death.
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But what if John Bolton is wrong?

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Monday, March 22, 2010 8:01:53 PM
John Bolton is sharply critical of Obama in an article today, and warns that America is less safe as a result of this administration's conduct, and that our enemies are watching.  In that, I agree with him.  But Bolton gives President Obama the benefit of the doubt by crediting Obama with wanting to appear even-handed by chastising our allies while ignoring flagrant abuses of power by adversaries.

I beg to differ.

First, Obama cares not one whit for foreign affairs or national defense, and never has.  His interest in "foreign policy" extends only insofar as he can milk the wealth of this country to distribute it to third-world nations around the globe.

Second, Obama has little sympathy for democracies elsewhere, or peoples who are struggling to establish them.  His sympathies, in fact, lie with dictators and tyrants who can achieve their objectives with the elegant simplicity Obama so admires, and without the messy "democratic process" which has so burdened him.  He gladhands Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega not because he has to tolerate them, but because he admires (and perhaps even envies) them.

The success of western democracies, in Obama's skewed worldview, is a function of their economic oppression of others.  But when faced with real (which is to say, political) oppression by government, Obama shrugs, bored.  If you want to make an omelet, you've got to break a few eggs.

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Krauthammer nails it.

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Monday, March 22, 2010 11:49:17 AM
Don't utilize deceit and call it conviction.  We know the difference.

See the video clip here.
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Could Pelosi possibly be a bigger idiot?

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Monday, March 22, 2010 11:47:06 AM
She's got a great quote in this one:

"We all know, and it's been said over and over again, that our economy needs something, a jolt and I believe that this legislation will unleash tremendous entrepreneurial power to our economy."

As one who has spent ten years in entrepreneurship education, I can tell you that this is a crock.  "Entrepreneurial power"?  With crippling health insurance mandates and other oppressive taxes? 

The key to entrepreneurship's success as an engine of economic wealth is a company's ability to grow; it is not the ability (much less need) for every person to work for themselves.  Third world countries are filled with "entrepreneurs" selling fish, biscuits, and trinkets by the side of the road.  They may be "entrepreneurs" but their "power" is limited.  And their contribution to the nation's wealth is nil.

Nancy Pelosi is an idiot.
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Vote them all out!

Posted by Laura L. Hollis, JD on Monday, March 22, 2010 11:40:22 AM
Nicely capturing the mood of the country.  And this was before the nationalization of health care and student loans via "budget reconciliation."

It's only gonna get worse.  And I can't wait.  November 2010, here we come.
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