It may well be that Joe Lieberman has single-handedly saved U.S. health care from a “reform” bill that would have wrecked the system. But, because of his apostasy on the public option and Medicare expansion, he has become the primary target of the daily Two Minutes Hate held by the Democrat-Media Complex.Â
Like Orwell’s Party members, who were required to attend the daily ritual and […]
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JOE LIEBERMAN AS EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN
WAPO/ABC POLL: PUBLIC SAYS NO SALE
Another major survey shows that the public just isn’t buying the bill of goods that the President and Congress are selling under the brand of reform:
As the Senate struggles to meet a self-imposed, year-end deadline to complete work on legislation to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds the public generally […]
VACCINE RECALL: GOV’T HEALTH PREVIEW
All you need to know about the competency of the federal government to manage health care is encapsulated in the pig’s breakfast (ahem) they have made of the H1N1 pandemic. Today we learned about yet another snafu:
Health officials are recalling hundreds of thousands of doses of swine flu vaccine after tests indicated they may not be potent enough […]
REFORM: THE CASE FOR DOING NOTHING
My father was a typical specimen of that long-vanished breed, the “Roosevelt Democrat.” Nonetheless, he liked Republican President Dwight Eisenhower because Ike played a lot of golf.
His theory was that the more time Eisenhower spent on the links, the less time he would have to mess up the country. The basic idea was that there are worse things than doing nothing.
As it happens, there is a venerable medical corrollary […]
WAPO: LIEBERMAN WANTS THOUSANDS TO DIE
Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein, in a snit because Joe Lieberman won’t sign off on Harry Reid’s latest ”reform” boondoggle, accuses the Connecticut Senator of wanting to kill people for political revenge:
At this point, Lieberman seems primarily motivated by torturing liberals. That is to say, he seems willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people […]
HEALTH CARE HORATIUS STILL STANDING FIRM
It looks like Horatius is still at the bridge, holding off the invaders (i.e. Democrats) who want to sack the medical delivery system. Joe Lieberman, having already promised to filibuster any “reform� bill containing a public option, has now served notice that he plans to stop Harry Reid’s Medicare expansion scam:
Mr. Lieberman told the Senate […]
BUSH BETTER THAN OBAMA ON AIDS IN AFRICA
Like many Americans, international AIDS activists are beginning to miss President Bush. According to The East African, the Obama administration has failed to honor its funding commitments for the battle against AIDS:
Activists are expressing disappointment with President Barack Obama’s plans for the Aids treatment programme in Africa, charging that he has fallen short of the achievements of […]
HARRY REID: MAKING SAUSAGE IN THE DARK
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the Majority Leader of the United States Senate is making up health reform as he goes along. This is beginning to cause alarm, even among sympathetic observers like the WaPo:
The only thing more unsettling than watching legislative sausage being made is watching it being made on the fly … the last-minute introduction of this [Medicare […]
WE’D LIKE TO THANK YOU BARACK OBAMA
In the musical Annie, the ragged residents of ”Hooverville” sing a sardonic song called, ”We’d Like to Thank You Herbert Hoover.” Its occupants obviously blame the 31st president for their sorry plight:
We’d like to thank you, Herbert Hoover
For really showing us the way
You dirty rat, you Bureaucrat, you
Made us what we are todayÂ
Will we ever hear similar tunes about Barack […]
REAGAN TRIED TO WARN US ABOUT MEDICARE
An easy way to bring a self-satisfied smirk to the face of an Obamacare supporter is to mention Ronald Reagan’s early opposition to Medicare. It’s an article of faith among these people that history has proven the Gipper wrong when he objected to the program for the following reason:
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism, or socialism, on a people has been by way […]