WELL, THEY DID IT...

As a fabulous monument to foolishness, the Democrats forced through their "health reform bill" yesterday. Cleverly, a few high-visibility benefits will accrue soon, even more cleverly, all the costs are deferred until after the next presidential election, and the real tax crunch and the losses in service won't hit until Obama is safely out of office. Who is more guilty here - Obama, Pelosi, Reid? They all are, as is their 'Sixties mentality that is steeped in the notion of a small group of betters reducing everyone else to chattel. In other words, socialism with a rainbow face.

Let us see how the challenges go - 35 states are already prepared to challenge the bill, the Supreme Court must review it for constitutionality, etc. etc. After that, we will see whether we still have a functioning democracy. In the meanwhile, fight!

BACK ABOARD

Still trembling at the very thought of the nightmare called Obama.

After a single year of it, America's reputation throughout the world lies in ruins. Our friends and allies are not friends and allies any more, thanks to Obama's messianic pretensions. Our enemies are openly laughing at us. Our economy has been driven into the ground, and a communist country holds so much of our debt that it now presumes to tell us how to run our business, or else. All of Obama's appointees are ideological, anti-scientific loonies who cannot tell one kind of orifice from another but who know exactly what to do to turn democracy into dictatorship. The head of NASA is now head of outreach to Indonesia. The sock puppet in charge of homeland defense has nixed the plan to put up a border fence to make invasion by illegals more difficult. (About now, I could pass out from hyperventilation if I go on, so let me move on to better news.)

There are encouraging developments. The long-suffering American people are finally in revolt, and getting angrier. As another blogger had so aptly put it last September, the ents have gone to war. Good on them. Good on us. Time to capture Orthanc, then move on to Mordor. The TEA Parties are active, and anxious politicians are beginning to listen. The Democrats have been stunned by losing significant political races, and the Republicans are finally showing some spine. The climate change hoax, which is a declared keystone of global governance (i.e. world dictatorship), has been discredited, with more and more scientists either abandoning that sinking ship or getting even more hysterical and ridiculous. The States are asserting their constitutional rights vis-a-vis the Federal government. And, most significantly, Obama's reputation has now gone down the drain, and rats are abandoning his ship. If his flagship health/education "reform" bomb passes, he is doomed. If it does not, he is doomed.

Speaking of which... Over the past few days, I had the unenviable task of reviewing that 2,309-page monstrosity. I find it so convoluted, so incomprehensible, so full of downright totalitarian notions and such a midwife to yet more thousands of useless bureaucrats that I have actually trekked to my congressman's and senators' offices and left handwritten notes to please please please kill it before it kills us.

I also pleaded with the to avoid "slaughtering" democracy. They might get it, or they might not. But it's a crucial point to make.

Go America!

IN THE BACKWARD WORLD, THE RULE OF LAW IS A COUP D'ETAT

The Hondurans removed their very own OOPS (Official Obama Pal and Soulmate) from the presidency after he repeatedly broke the law in trying to set himself up as dictator for life. The Hondurans' brave actions represent the rule of law and are triumph for democracy.

That is precisely why the reactionariesprogressives, with the Fuehrobama in the lead, disapprove of it so vehemently. After all, they are well under way toward enshrining contempt for the law as the new "rule of law" in the United States. Just ask Maxine Waters, the California brainiac who declared that the legal impeachment of Clinton was a coup d'etat.

She clearly understands these things (and all other things) better than anyone - just check out her sex and skin color!

A DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT IN EUROPE

The Czech President Vaclav Klaus has come up with a very descriptive term for the tremendous - and increasing - power of the unelected Eurocrat elite in Brussels and the ever-diminishing power of the citizens of European countries. In a March 22, 2009 interview with The Sunday Times, he called it the democratic deficit. Naturally enough, he has frequently come under vicious attack by the Eurocrats for his independent, critical and pro-democracy stance, the latest a few days ago by the French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, who accused Klaus of "demolishing Europe."

Klaus's response was very simple. First, he pointed out that Kouchner's accusation has nothing to do with what he, Klaus, had said. Then he added pointedly:

If people like Mr. Kouchner view my opinions as a demolition of Europe, then I can only say that they themselves set the stage for that demolition by demolishing a democratic discussion.

Another interesting observation from the same article:

I also stressed that in the...radio talk which, by the way, had received almost no publicity. In contrast, the media had trumpeted Mr. Kouchner’s statement far and wide.

It seems that both Europe and the United States now face the same problem: an administration that is hell-bent on centralizing power in the hands of the unelected few and major media outlets that are in the securely pockets of the centralizers.

Maybe that is why the current European Parliament elections aren't going so well for the Eurocrats: the so-called center-right is gaining strength in the European Parliament at the expense of the so-called left, and leftist parties in many member nations are in crisis.

Maybe that's also why the Obamite administration is losing popularity so precipitously.

There is always trouble when people begin to wake up to the fact that the honeyed words they are being fed are mainly b.s.

BIG MOTHER SPEAKETH AGAIN...

...and as always, it maketh little sense.

The Washington Times reports that Speaker Pelosi wants to prevent federal investigators from investigating questionable doings by members of Congress. She has reportedly invoked the Separation of Powers clause in the Constitution as Her justification.

Now, call me crazy (many do, so don't feel bad!), but I always thought that the Separation of Powers clause was to make government more accountable and to keep any portion of government from accumulating too much power. To cite the U. S. Constitution Online Website:

"The Separation of Powers devised by the framers of the Constitution was designed to do one primary thing: to prevent the majority from ruling with an iron fist. Based on their experience, the framers shied away from giving any branch of the new government too much power. The separation of powers provides a system of shared power known as Checks and Balances."

To those of us who (a) have lived in totalitarian countries and (b) take Orwell seriously because he knew what he was talking about, this sounds very much like some people wanting to be a little more equal than others.

Pelosi's gambit should be very disturbing news to anyone who thinks democracy cannot afford to die.

BIG MOTHER SPEAKETH

last day of April 2009, squeezing in a blog entry
inbetween cooking dinner, fending off salesmen
and installing a new toilet...

I am still trying to wrap my head around this one...

"Very exciting, very exciting for the American people, because now we can get things done without explaining process," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had said about Senator Arlen Specter's switch to the Democratic Party.

Call me crazy, but I am always singularly unexcited when people do complicated things that affect my life but feel no need to explain them to me. In fact, I tend to feel seriously abused. Here's to hope that I am not alone in this.