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[jessduntno]

When Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind) announced his retirement, the media revived their drumbeat that our government is broken. As the indispensable Brent Bozell pointed out last week, Democrats and the media only complain of broken government when the liberals can’t get their agenda enacted.

The problem isn’t that our government isn’t working: it’s that President Obama’s agenda is entirely perverse. It reverses the essential order of priorities, devoting the energy of government exclusively to his plans to revolutionize our country.

Since last June, congress and the White House have been consumed by President Obama’s plan to impose government control on our healthcare system. With time outs for the occasional earthquake or celebrity scandal, their attention has been drawn from more important issues, and of our most precious asset -- time -- nine months have been wasted and cannot be recovered.

Consider the new CNN poll on the manufactured healthcare “crisis.” Released February 27th the poll shows that 48% of Americans believe that the massive 2,000-plus page legislation should be scrapped and that Congress should start over. Add to that the poll’s finding that 25% believe that Congress should stop working on healthcare altogether and you have 73% of Americans proving once again that Americans are usually smarter than the people they elect to lead them.

If there were a healthcare crisis which required a solution, those numbers would be reversed. But voters know that our economy – now suffering an oxymoronic “jobless recovery” – is a much bigger problem. As are Iran, Afghanistan, China and a lot of the world’s other puzzle pieces.

Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid have created their own healthcare crisis by having invested so much time on the legislation.

[jessduntno]

"They can’t put it on the back burner now without admitting that the Tea Partiers and Republicans have won. So at least until the Easter recess on March 29, they’re going to waste even more time on it. Obama insists that they do.

Why, with all the other problems we face, does the president insist that this is the most urgent matter he and Congress must deal with?"

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[jessduntno]

Sorry; Title S/B;

Obama’s Perverse Priorities

[JohnLongIsland]

The good thing is the ones that broke it are the ones that are leaving.