Posted on 09/09/2004 10:19:42 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
When Bill Clinton suggested that John Kerry talk more about domestic issues in order to boost his sagging presidential campaign, the creation of a new federal Department of Wellness was probably not what the former president had in mind. But that's what Mr. Kerry advocated Wednesday in Greensboro, N.C. MSNBC quoted him as stating that, in an effort to reduce the cost of health-care coverage, "I intend to have not just a Department of Health and Human Services, but a Department of Wellness."
In truth, it's probably just a matter of time before the level of ridicule rises to a level sufficient to bring Mr. Kerry's spin team out in force to tell everyone that the senator never proposed any such thing, and that anyone who says he did is conspiring with the White House to impugn his patriotism. But, for now, it seems clear enough that in the coming Kerry administration, the wellness secretary will have a seat at Cabinet meetings alongside luminaries like the secretaries of state and defense.
It's not clear precisely what the Secretary of Wellness will do. But it's probably fair to expect that such a person will be a guardian of nanny-state liberalism. He or she will be responsible for ensuring that all 300 million or so of us behave in ways that will make us more healthy, in order to hold down the costs of all the new government-run health-care programs that a President Kerry would create.
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I read somewhere today about this Dept of Wellness. I think it was at National Review Online. Anyway, the author said "How about a Dept of @#^^@#! Perspective." I totally agree. We're at war right now, Muslim terrorists want to kill Americans, and Kerry is thinking about a Dept of Wellness? How very Sept 10. I'm sure a Dept of Peace is not far behind.
We can make a pretty good guess at it though. I see the Wellness Secretary conspiring with the Breck Girl to sue fast food companies, breweries etc etc. Use your imagination, the possiblities are endless.
MKM
This has to be a plan for jk to drop out of the race.
wellness dept i cant stop laughing
next we will be hearing kucknicks(sic)peace dept proposal
this is one of the most ridiculous things jk ever said
and we know he says alot of ridiculous things
ciao
w2004
kerry spitballs priceless
The Defense Department will be renamed Department of Kinetic Nuance.
The Department of Homeland Security will be The Department of Sweet Dreams.
The Internal Revenue Service will be renamed The Helpful Paycheck Heroes.
What kind of socialist crap hapy talk is that?
Department of Whatever, that would be more like it.
"Whatever it takes, to take Americas money."
I suggest a Department of Health, Department of Wellness, Department of Curing, Department of Housing, Department of Places to Live, Department of Living Space, Department of Defense, Department of Protection, Department of Homeland Security, Department of War, Department of Peace, Department of State, Department of Learning, Department of Education, Department of Teaching, Department of Schools, Department of Redundant Departments Department.
I've never been prouder to be an idiot. I heard Teresa's quote, she is wacko.
I think that was in either slate or salon, by the liberal micky kaus.
I'd give it maybe three years before Kerry's 'Department of Wellness' has it's own tactical SWAT response team.
Thanks for the origination of the quote. I've read so much today that I couldn't remember where it was.
I eat what I want and no damn liberal is going to make me do anything different. Once told one of my doctors that I didn't pay him for preventive maintenance, just to fix what I tore up.
I'm laughing - what a wonderful phrase, "how very Sept. 10"! I can see that phrase catching on big time.
Great visual isn't it. But I can't take credit, Dog is the first one I heard use the phrase.
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