June 17th, 2009
10:35 am

I’ll laugh with you if things haven’t changed dramatically by this time next year.

According to TNGelding “logic”, the reason that this President is retreating from his grandiose (and vacant) promises of ethical reform is because of George W Bush. It is the fault of the President who he challenged for the behavior that he, himself, has to continue acting in the same manner.

It’s ok TN, you can feel free to acknowledge that he is hypocrite, liar, and thief while being happy that at least he is -your- hypocrite, liar, and thief. I suspect that you can find some solace in the fact that he says what you want to hear even if he behaves in a incongruent manner.

-SD

Until we can climb out of this hole W left.

And too many of you are willing to trust your health care to a lying political opportunist like this under the incredulously naive illusion that he (and other nameless, faceless, -unaccountable- bureaucrats) can better provide for and make decisions for you and your family than you can.

For my good friend AmVet, the cultural / political battle is not “center-right vs far, far right”. Frankly, a President effectively nationalizing entire industries, rampantly spending and wasting tax dollars (or acquiring debt at a historic pace), and seeking to take control our very access to health care has, with all due respect, not seen the “center” of any political philosophy in years. He is a collectivist grouned in the philosophy that it is acceptable to take under threat of injury (aka steal) that which is earned by producers and achievers to fund transfer payments and services to those who did not. He does it for the express purpose to acquire power and authority from those who benefit from his actions.

Frankly, AmVet, the political battle is between those who support freedom and opportunity versus those who support security and dependence. Personally, I side with those who support achievement and excellence recognizing that as the best way to continue America’s growth and advancement. I support the idea that everyone should earn and produce for themselves; not that some self-appointed overseer should divide and share what some earn with those who choose not to.

That is the American political struggle and I know where I stand in the challenge.

-SD

…speaking of the Republicans, if you can’t shove some real reform down their throats now, then when? Folks, Barack Obama needs to start putting it on the line in fights against the banks, the energy companies and the health care industry.

I never thought I’d say this, but actually, what he needs in his personality is a little George Bush. He needs to stop worrying about being loved and bring out that smug, insufferable swagger that says, “Suck on it, America.”

George Bush had horrible ideas—torture, deregulation, preemptive war, tax cuts for the rich—but he pushed them through in their full measure, never mind the Congress or the Constitution, the Geneva Convention — Magna Carta—Hammurabi’s Code. The point is, he didn’t care if it made him unpopular with every human on the planet not named Cletus or Fred Barnes. Which it did.

And what we need to do is to marry the good ideas that Barack Obama has, with a little bit of the Bush attitude and certitude. I’d love it if Obama came out one day and said, “Jesus told me to fix health care.”

http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/new_rules/index.html

Throw in a US Congress that is getting more and more and more spineless in it’s outright abdication of doing its job, serving the people and acting as a check and balance on the imperial presidents, and yeah, a whole lotta people get nervous…