Our good friend Kathy over at Five Feet of Fury wrote a great article the other day on Hillsdale College scholar Paul Rahe and his take on the state of affairs in America. Need confirmation that Kathy hit the nail on the head? Rush read it on the air!
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At least the Democrats are getting good at something.
Philip Klein of The American Spectator Reports:
In a phone interview with TAS Thursday afternoon, [Rep. Paul] Ryan [R-WI] said that he expects Democrats to begin the complex process on Monday, under which they would have the Budget Committee approve a phantom bill by midnight, which they will then send over to the Rules Committee. At that point, the Rules Committee will strip out all of the language in the phantom bill, and insert the changes to the Senate bill that Democrats have negotiated.
Now, this whole rigmarole sounds a little confusing — which it is. The Democrats have attempted to look at every possible loophole to pass Obamacare without going through the standard congressional process. Big surprise, they failed. So, instead of finding a loophole they’re making stuff up, which David Axelrod doesn’t seem to mind:
The one thing I’m sure of is that the American people don’t know or care much about the sequencing of parliamentary procedures. They want an up or down vote after a year long debate to bring this to a close.
Well David, you’re right that Americans do want to bring this to a close. Similarly, they also want to bring the Chicago politics that you and B. Hussein Obama seem to insistent on keeping in the White House to a close. Sorry, what was that? You don’t actually care about what Americans want? My bad.
Healthcare has become the new Chicago 2016 Olympics. Politicians have lost sight of whether or not it’s a good idea. Now, it’s simply a legacy bill. Obama doesn’t care about health insurance for the poor; he proved that quite clearly when he let one of his supporters die (and be buried in a Barack Obama t-shirt.) He doesn’t care about saving the world one free surgery at a time, he wants to go down in the history books. And he will, and the first one-term African American President.