While Washington takes emergency action to save themselves, American families and businesses are tossed overboard. What’s worse is that Washington seems completely oblivious to their own hypocrisy. On the same day that Hill staffers are being bailed out of Obamacare, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is launching her road-show to sell its benefits to everyone else.
OK. It’s a nice day,and the link says brain drain.How can you have a brain drain,when there are no brains,just parasites? Damn.I confuse so easily when the sun is out.
And an earlier story mentioned how ‘moderate’ Republicans were meeting behind closed doors with Democrats to ‘fix’ this. Rather than, you know, stick to any sort of principle and tell the Democrats – “Sorry, you voted for this. Either accept it or repeal it.”
Sadly, I think this will be the enduring legacy of the GOP – “Screw the voters, it’s every politician for himself.”
When I was young and innocent, and first encountered Americans, I was bemused by the immense importance which they attached to being “Democrat” or being “Republican”. I couldn’t see much if any difference between the two, in practice.
Now I still can’t see much, if any, difference between the two. Indeed, their differences on NSA spying, or Edward Snowden, or support for the US military, or indeed practically on Obamacare, do not seem significant. It seems that both Republican and Democrat Senators are members of a power elite, and maintaining its power is more important even than winning elections. I would offer M. Romney’s conduct toward the Tea Party as a prime instance.
They are just different factions within the Politburo.
It all changed when Kennedy was shot. Up until then the parties were somewhat on the same page. Kennedy was arguably more right-wing in his views than many of the GOP at that time.
(pace The John Birch Society.) Vietnam,Cuban Missile crisis,tax relief, etc.
America no longer has a functioning democracy nor a free society – no civil or constitutional abomination coming out of this bankrupt depleted kleto-tyranny should surprise us – we will follow soon enough.
It all changed when Kennedy was shot.
Yup, and it’s been a downhill slide into economic & political oblivion since then.
Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin, heads or tails doesn’t matter, we always lose and the house always wins.
The situation here is that when you have different laws for different people, it creates lawlessness.
When folks don’t have the same protocols for living it creates chaos.
Looks like the rats are jumping ship, while taking the life boats. Leaving those paying for it all adrift. Its a disgusting situation.
Kill Obamacare, kill it quick.
What’s going on in America today is depressing. Its becoming just another banana state.
Hard to talk about it, when your own Nation is committing societal suicide as well.
Just in a different fashion.
Hey but many of us knew this would happen before Obama was even elected.
It all changed when Kennedy was shot
Just to add my two cents: I agree that Kennedy was a turning point. I view him as the first career-politician president. After him, Lyndon Johnson surely kicked off the surge to the left with the whole “Great Society” bit (which, if I remember, was an extension of a Kennedy policy…just supercharged).
But IMHO, the real year-zero for the new progressive left was 1968. That was the year the DNC was overrun by hippies. On this side of the border, Trudeau was elected Prime Minister. It was at this point that the goal posts started getting moved so far to the left that people lost their sense of where center was.
Yes, it is the curse of Cassandra to make predictions which are not believed, and watch hopelessly as they come true.
I get furious with some Republicans, too, but I never make the mistake of thinking they are no better than Democrats. Remember it was Democrats who foisted Obamacare on us, not the Republicans. No Republican voted for it. Cities and states that are the most over-taxed, over-regulated, and in the worst financial shape have usually been run by Democrats, often for a very long time. You can’t blame Republicans for the disasters in California, Illinois, and Detroit, to name a few.
Can you think of a better reason to fear Obamacare than that the people who invented it want to be exempt from it?
Kennedy was also the last POTUS to try and eliminate the Federal Reserve Bank. If I had a tin foil hat, I’d say they were behind his murder.
http://ecclesia.org/forum/uploads/bondservant/jfkP.pdf
The truth is out there and I don’t think it’s been exposed yet.
Thank-you peterj, for that link. President Kennedy was not a coward.