Emotional Blackmail

Here is the Democrat's strategy for winning people to their side on healthcare (as practiced yesterday by Tom Harkin, the denture lady, et al): "I know someone who is suffering and I'm suffering, therefore you must accede to my opinion--and you’re heartless if you don’t." Notice there is no appeal to intellect, no appeal to reason, no appeal to common sense. This is pure emotional blackmail. A political ploy. It is an effort to overcome reasonable argumentation with raw emotion. It is cheap. It is phony. And in the end it will not work.

Perhaps this is why the Canadian Premier Didn't go to Great Britain

Here is a most interesting report from British news service Reuters, no evil conservative news outlet. Where did I hear about the Reuters report? ABC-NBC-CBS? No. CNN-CNBC-MSNBC-Public TV-NPR? No, not them, either. Why, it was on the Rush Limbaugh Program.

Oh, yeah: we definitely need some of this superior British-style free socialist health care over here. Can't say I've ever been treated to anything like this. They certainly seemed quite concerned about keeping their costs down. You don't suppose there was any rationing going on, do you? Well, at least we'd never have to worry about that happening here. For some reason, these Brits didn't seem to have much of an incentive to take care of the poor patients in this lovely hospital. Of course, they do have a centralized system, so shouldn't all the hospitals be the same? But that would make them all like this. No, that's ridiculous; this is Great Britain, a socialist utopia. No, perhaps some capitalist insurance companies sneaked in. No, no; the article specifically states it was an NHS--that's National Health Service--hospital. Hmm. . . I wonder what that missing incentive could be. . . . You don't suppose it's profit, do you? Aaaaachhhh! I feel dirty even suggesting it. But wait a minute; where else did they try (only for about 70 years, though) central planning without the incentive of profit? Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue. . . Swaziland, Soweto. . . Soviet Union! But they were communists. We don't have any of those here. Well, I mean, except Van Jones. Oh, and that lady in the Obama administration who admires Mao as one of her favorite political philosophers (well, he was responsible for tens of millions of dead comrades, but nobody's perfect). And that union ally of Obama's who agrees with Mao that power comes from the barrel of a gun. Well, that's just poetry or something, right? Ach! It's all coincidence! And lies, lies! Oh, excuse me; there I go sounding like Stalin or. . . like Obama.

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Canadian Premier Goes to Miami for Heart Surgery

Well, what do you know about that? I wonder why he didn't go to Great Britain?

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The great Scott Brown!

I had my doubts about this guy from the get-go, with his avoidance of the very word Republican during his entire campaign. Now he joins with other "Republicans" (Snowe, Collins, and Voinovich) to help Harry Reid and the Leftists advance a so-called "jobs" bill. This is a good thing? It turns out it's Teddy Kennedy's seat after all.

Brown is talking about a desire to bring "bipartsanship" back to Washington.

Bring it back!?! When was this vaunted time when Washington was a bipartisan city? When was this time when Democrats and Republicans hugged and kissed and made whoopee together? When was the time, when was the era, of this vaunted civility that we have supposedly lost? These are fanatsies, people.

Leftists and conservatives have always hated each other and always will - and for very good reason. They think we're stupid, racist, insensitive, greedy and who knows what else. We know they're totalitatians at heart, arrogant, presumptuous, sanctimonious, and self-satisfied. And ultimately, we know they're like the lost boys - they never grow up. What's not to hate?

Excepting brief periods when the nation was at war, Washington has never been bipartisan, nor should any sane person want it to be. I don't want to meet Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi, or Barack Obama halfway. I want them to lose and lose big. Lose totally. I want to see them and their socialist agenda repudiated. That's my agenda - and Scott Brown is not helping to advance it, not one whit.

Is Biden serious?

Joe Biden told Larry King last night, "I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government." Is he serious? Bush does all the heavy lifting and takes all the slings and arrow, then Obama counts it as his great achievement. As I remember it, both Biden and Obama vehemently opposed and criticized the so-called surge, which obviously was what finally put down the so-called insurgency. But never mind the truth, if Joe says it's Obama's great achievement, then it will certainly go down in history as Obama's great achievement. PU!

Obama's first-term achievements