There has been talk about President Obama signing an executive order that would reaffirm the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of public funds for abortion, except in cases of rape, incest or to save the woman’s life.

And if you give me the money for a hamburger today, I will gladly repay you on Tuesday!
Executive orders can be rescinded. At any time. For any reason.

They are frequently canceled out when a new administration wishes to undo the mischief (or the progress) of the last president. Obama himself could do a “mea culpa” before the end of his term and explain that he was forced to do it, or it was expedient to do so for “the greater good” of health care “reform”, and in an (what’s the word they like to use about this president? Oh, yeah!)unprecedented move, he could rescind his own executive order. See? He could make history yet again!

Don’t expect Obama, who twice voted for laws that were infanticide in everything but name, to give more than lip service to Hyde. And that, only temporarily until he gets what he wants.

I would hope that pro-life Democrats would be sophisticated enough to see that, though I hold out little hope.

If Obama signs an executive order reaffirming the Hyde amendment, don’t look for anyone to carve that in stone. It will be written with a finger in the frost of the windshield of Obama’s stretch limo. I don’t need to tell you which finger.

Cross Posted at Proof Positive

“I don’t even know what you’re talking about.” That was the response of Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-FL to a question from Chris Wallace on this morning’s Fox News Sunday, regarding a specific provision of the health care bill poised on the precipice to pass.

May I suggest that this is emblematic of much of what is wrong with this rush to take over one sixth of the US economy: No one knows exactly what is in it. Two thousand plus pages politics, pork and patronage, doling out favors and exemptions to certain groups and individuals, denying them to others…this bill, or set of bills is about taxes and government control. Health care and sob stories about orphans and people losing their insurance merely provide the “crisis” for a stalking horse for the expansion of government.

The specific question that caused Ms. Wasserman Schultz to blurt out “I don’t even know what you’re talking about”, was a provision in the government take over of the student loan program that has been incorporated into this bill. I mean, it’s not as if taking over one sixth of the nation’s economy and the entire health care system wasn’t complex enough, lets throw in a little more complexity and do it as a package deal!

When the Democrats calculate the “savings” that health care reform will bring, they have to throw in savings from the student loan program to prop up their anemic (and questionable) “reform” savings.

Aside from the question if the government should even be in the student loan business, (Where in the Constitution does it say that the Federal government should make loans to students? Probably the same place that it says the government can mandate all its citizens to purchase health insurance!) , the idea of putting control of student loans into the hands of people who favor central planning may not be beneficial to freedom in the long run. Forget “death panels”! If I went to Bank of America or Wells Fargo for a student loan, all they cared about was would I pay them back. Central planning could allow the folks responsible for the “People’s Money” at some point, to deny a loan based on your declared major, if they felt there was a glut in that particular vocation.

To recap, the health care proposal spends trillions of dollars, fails to make good on its promise of universal coverage (millions will still be without coverage), fails on its promise of providing an extra “choice” (soon, there will be far fewer choices as they put private insurance as we know it out of business), will take over the entire nation’s student loan program (with the exception of one bank in North Dakota), and doesn’t attempt to lower costs of actually providing the services, other than the imaginary and historically contradictory evidence of “economies of scale” with government run bureaucracies.

Sheesh!

Cross Posted at Proof Positive

Thanks, you imbeciles. Did it not occur to you that the left and their media lapdogs would grab this with both hands and clutch it to their pasty chests, panting with absolute orgasmic joy that you provided them with proof that the Tea Party - and by default the right in general - are indeed the bitter clingers the left so wants them to be? Way to go, fools.

Its no secret that the left is prone to histrionics and tend to squeal like frightened schoolgirls when anyone from the right has the temerity to disgaree with their vision of an American utopia, so why would Tea Party protesters do something stupid like shout racial epithets at black Democrats and call Barney Frank names best fit for a high school locker room? Has the Tea Party suddenly gotten stupid? Or is there more to it than that?

One possibility to explain some of the acting out is, of course, the possibility that some of those shouting the vile names were ringers. It would be easy, after all, to pick up a sign, wade in among the crowd, and start shouting stuff that would make a Klansman proud. The above mentioned media would love it, broadcast it with gusto, and never bother to check the bona fides of whoever was howling at the moon. And, no, the left is not above doing just that.

And then, there is another possibility.

The frustration of the majority of the people in this country is beginning to manifest itself in ugly ways. People are watching their government in the midst of a shameless - and possibly even criminal - power grab of unprecedented proportions. They’ve protested by the millions all across the country, and those protests have by and large been peaceful. And they’ve been ignored.

Tens of thousands have come to Washington over and over again to express their displeasure and have rarely merited the news coverage they deserved. Their elected representatives have engaged in back room deals executed in darkness and in complete disregard of the will of the American people.

So…..are those doing the shouting now a symptom of an emerging frustration or just a few boorish buffoons who are as ignorant at home as they are in public? My opinion is - both. The clowns shouting the racial slurs and toting the signs like the one above are the first. As the anger swells there will be more, although I suspect the racist morons will be marginalized. Whether the left likes to admit it or not, most conservatives are as repulsed by racists and racism as they are. That doesn’t fit well into the liberal narrative.

By the way, the link above is to a Huffington Post article on the subject of the fools who did the shouting - one even allegedly spit on a black Congressman - and of course the commenters are saying exactly what I said they would. The Tea Partiers are a bunch of racists, etc., blah, blah, blah. It’s all they have, so they use it well.

Anyway, way to go, whoever you dipsticks were who came up with that sign and who shouted those things. Do us all a favor if you really want to help. Stay home next time instead of giving the left the gift of your stupidity. Let the adults handle this. 

Fools.