Calling President Obama, Senator
Harry Reid, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi disingenuous is, at best
inaccurate. Let’s face it; these three
have been lying through their teeth to the American people. They have shifted into high gear over the
government shutdown/continuing resolution and the debt ceiling.
In the first place, all three
keep talking about how they are willing to negotiate with the Republicans. Then they turn right around and say that they
will not compromise on any of the points that have been brought up by the
Republicans. Apparently none of them
understand the meaning of negotiate (“to bring about, through discussion and COMPROMISE). It is obvious that Obama, Reid, and Pelosi
have no intention of compromising, and they have actually stated their
intention is not to compromise, in spite of their rhetoric.
Before the 2008 election, when
the Congress (made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate) was
debating raising the debt ceiling, then Senator Obama made the following
comments about President Bush. “The way Bush has done it over the last
eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China, in the name of
our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion. The first forty-two presidents, number
forty-three added $4 trillion by his lonesome so that we now have over $9
trillion of debt that we are gonna have to pay back, $30,000 for every man,
woman, and child. That’s
irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.”
After making that statement,
Obama voted AGAINST raising the debt limit. Now, after running the national debt up to
$17 trillion, Mr. Obama is demanding that Congress vote to raise the debt
limit, saying that it is necessary just to pay our bills. Is he irresponsible and unpatriotic? (I’m just using his definition.)
Obama has said numerous times
that the inflammatory rhetoric needs to cease.
Does he mean calling Republicans “jihadists” or likening them to wife
abusers? Does he mean calling anyone
opposed to Obamacare as racist? Maybe he
is referring to those calling Republicans terrorists, extremists, or
arsonists. ALL of these comments came
from Democrats, some in the House, some in the Senate, and some in the White
House, specifically Mr. Obama himself, after his call to cease the inflammatory
rhetoric.
It should be noted here that the
government “shutdown” is somewhat a misnomer.
Actually, only about 18% of the government is shut down (Perhaps we
should simply dismiss that 18%. We seem
to be getting along just fine without them.
We could eliminate the EPA, the Commerce Department, the Education
Department, and the Energy Department.
That would save plenty of money.
The Obama administration (and the
buck stops at Obama’s desk) has the option of declaring what/who is essential
to the operation of the government. With
that option, his administration has decided to inflict as much pain as is
possible. Although funding Sesame Street, the decision was made to
cease funding cancer research at the National Institutes for Health. Although it cost more to close the “open-air”
memorials around Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Arizona, Normandy, and South
Dakota, among others, the Obama administration chose to assign Park Rangers to
erect barricades to prevent us “commoners” from having access to the monuments. Even private businesses and privately owned
homes on leased federal land had access blocked.
We are still being fed the same
old party line about how good the “Affordable” Care Act is. If it’s so darn good, then why did Obama
grant so many waivers on implementation (including unions, members (and their
staffs) of the Congress, members of the Supreme Court, and members of the Obama
administration, allowing them to opt out of Obamacare or receive a subsidy from
the government (paid for by you and me)?
If Obamacare is good enough for us, why isn’t it good enough for them? By the way, that is one of the sticking
points the Democrats had with the House Republicans. The House Republicans felt that, if Obamacare
is good enough for us peons, it should be good enough for Congress. The Democrats obviously do not feel that
way. The proposal to remove the Congressional
exemption was removed by Senate Democrats.
What about the word “affordable”
being used? What is affordable about
Obamacare? There are plenty of horror
stories of insurance premiums skyrocketing, along with horrendous co-pays or
deductibles. What about people being
moved from full time employment to part time employment? What about the promises we heard out of Obama’s
mouth? “If you like your current plan, you can keep it. If you like your doctor, you can keep your
doctor.” These promises were no more
than more lies.
There is no need to go on
further. If this isn’t sufficient proof
of the lies being spoken and perpetrated on the American people, then
additional proof will not convince you.
If you haven’t heard about these things, then you are obviously getting
all your news from ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, or the Comedy Channel. Otherwise, you need to move that rock and
climb out from under it. You might find
out what is going on before it’s too late!
I have two solutions. You are welcome to pick either, or, if you
can come up with one that is better, please offer it. First, the House Republicans could pass a
bill funding the government, without funding Obamacare, and send it to the
Senate. The Senate doesn’t even have to
read the bill. All they have to do is
use Nancy Pelosi’s advice: “We have to pass the bill to see what’s in
it.” My second solution, which may
be better overall, is that a huge sinkhole open up under Washington, D.C. and
swallow up the whole mess! Take your
pick.
