What starts twisted, ends twisted

[retro]

America has just witnessed an unconscionable abuse of power. President Obama has betrayed his oath to the nation — rather than bringing us together, ushering in a new kind of politics, and rising above raw partisanship, he has succumbed to the lowest denominator of incumbent power: justifying the means by extolling the ends. He promised better; we deserved better.

He calls his accomplishment “historic” — in this he is correct, although not for the reason he intends. Rather, it is an historic usurpation of the legislative process — he unleashed the nuclear option, enlisted not a single Republican vote in either chamber, bribed reluctant members of his own party, paid-off his union backers, scapegoated insurers, and justified his act with patently fraudulent accounting. What Barack Obama has ushered into the American political landscape is not good for our country; in the words of an ancient maxim, “what starts twisted, ends twisted.”

His health-care bill is unhealthy for America. It raises taxes, slashes the more private side of Medicare, installs price controls, and puts a new federal bureaucracy in charge of health care. It will create a new entitlement even as the ones we already have are bankrupt. For these reasons and more, the act should be repealed. That campaign begins today.
-Mitt Romney

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NzgyMzA1NWUwNjA5OTg2ZTUzMTliYzQyOTM1ZmIzNTI

 

[retro]

I also love the fact that they got Stupak, el al, to vote for this after promising an Executive Order that would uphold the Hyde Amendment. One small problem with that, the President does not have the authority to override statutes, so his Executive Order will just be a worthless piece of paper.

 

[retro]

and how about a Jefferson quote for good measure

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical

 

[itsmeJonB]

The founding fathers had slaves and were as corrupt as politicians are today

 

[Minor Axis]

America has just witnessed an unconscionable abuse of power. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NzgyMzA1NWUwNjA5OTg2ZTUzMTliYzQyOTM1ZmIzNTI

Rave on.

 

[Peter Parka]

Got to love all these indignant overraction threads to it. Give it a chance, at least, I'd put money on it being no where near as bad as you're prophesying.

 

[retro]

Got to love all these indignant overraction threads to it. Give it a chance, at least, I'd put money on it being no where near as bad as you're prophesying.

The legislation passed last night is fiscally irresponsible, unconstitutional, and morally reprehensible.

If the projections of upwards of 40% of doctors retiring or seeking jobs outside of private practice are anywhere close to the truth, then it's going to be every bit as bad or worse. Beginning next month, all Walgreens in Washington state will no longer accept MediCaid prescriptions, because they can't afford them due to what little reimbursement they get back. The private clinic that my dad is a part of already have preliminary votes by their board of directors that they would stop seeing MediCare patients (they already don't see MediCaid patients due to lack of reimbursement) if this legislation with all of it's MediCare cuts went through. Because they will be losing money with every patient that they see. But this is the end game for the Democrats, they want to force a single payer health care system on us, and this is step one in achieving that goal.

 

[Minor Axis]

I'd like to know if the Libertarians in this forum just think that all the politicians in Washington as a group have willfully decided to ignore the constitution? You guys are the only ones, who as a party has managed to have no representation on the national level and are squawking about it the loudest. Why is that?

 

[Ryder]

I thought this was about the movie Shutter Island.