Posted on 03/12/2010 9:00:31 PM PST by fightinJAG
So now it becomes clear: President Obama as Ahab, a political martyr wannabe who willfully straps himself to his own Moby Dick, that great white whale of a $1 trillion health-care overhaul.
My guess is that ObamaCare will pass (insert bone-wracking shudder here). And, like Moby Dick plunging to the ocean’s depths, it will take with it Obama’s presidency and the Democrats’ control of Congress.
But it isn't the Obama presidency I worry about. If he chooses to sink himself with this bloated whale, so be it. Great experiment, thanks for playing, see ya, Cap’n.
It is the future of our nation that worries me. We can't afford this healthcare facelift, even at its stated price, and the actual cost will prove to be manifold times higher than Congress projects.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
Golly, the thought of Obama as a STRAP-ON would send a thrill up Chrissy Mathews’ ENTIRE BODY so intense it’d probably kill him.
This is only in the movie. In the book, Ahab is yanked out of the boat by the line on the very last page of the last chapter. ( The one page Epilogue follows. )
The harpoon was darted; the stricken whale flew forward; with igniting velocity the line ran through the grooves;--ran foul. Ahab stooped to clear it; he did clear it; but the flying turn caught him round the neck, and voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim, he was shot out of the boat, ere the crew knew he was gone. Next instant, the heavy eye-splice in the rope's final end flew out of the stark-empty tub, knocked down an oarsman, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its depths.
I thought this was another story about the congressional showers.....
And on that day Ahab shall go to his grave.
But he will rise within the hour and beckon, and all save one must follow."
Good catch! (No pun intended.)
thanks !
He is not Ahab. He is Caligula.
I wonder when he’ll make his horse a Senator?
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