Aug
6
2009

URLs du Jour

2009-08-06

  • Mary Katherine Ham has a must-read post at the Weekly Standard describing how lefties have "discovered" Bob McGuffie and his tiny "Right Principles" PAC as (somehow) being behind all the unpleasantness Congresscritters are experiencing from their constituents. That whole First Amendment thing—

  • According to my state Democratic Party Chair, people expressing discontent at congressional town meetings are thugs. Good to know.

  • D'ya think all this whiny overreaction to criticism means ObamaCare's in trouble? See Taranto for more examples and analysis. Sample:
    President Obama tried to convince lawmakers in his own party that America’s “crisis” in health-care financing would turn to catastrophe if Congress did not radically expand government power over health care by this month. He failed. Despite huge Democratic majorities, neither house of Congress passed any such legislation by the Obama deadline.

    The president’s insistence on action without deliberation heightened the sense that ObamaCare was dangerous. He, and friendly media outlets, asked voters to trust his assurances that his plan would not adversely affect their medical coverage. But if that was true, why the haste? If ObamaCare is as good as Obama says it is, why is he acting as if it cannot withstand scrutiny?

    Those are what we in the pundit trade call rhetorical questions. Still…

  • John Stossel has a gift of expressing simple truths in a few obvious words:
    I keep reading about health-care "reform," but I have yet to see anyone explain how the government can make it easier for more people to obtain medical services, control the already exploding cost of those services, and not interfere with people's most intimate decisions.

    You don't need to be a Ph.D. in economics to understand that government cannot do all three things.

    Right. Actually, I'd bet that they can't even manage two out of three.