Posted on 06/14/2012 2:15:23 PM PDT by Ron C.
During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it’s squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.
In case you hadn’t heard, even if the Supreme Court overturns the progressives’ federal health care juggernaut, prominent GOP leaders vow to preserve its most “popular” provisions. These big-government Republicans show appalling indifference to the dire market disruptions and culture of dependency that Obamacare schemes have wrought.
GOP Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, vice chair of the Senate GOP Conference, told a St. Louis radio station two weeks ago that he supports keeping at least three Obamacare regulatory pillars: federally imposed coverage of “children” up to age 26 on their parents’ health insurance policies (the infamous, unfunded “slacker mandate”), federally mandated coverage regardless of pre-existing conditions (“guaranteed issue,” which turns the very concept of insurance on its head and leads to an adverse-selection death spiral) and closure of the coverage gap in the massive Bush-backed Medicare drug entitlement (the “donut hole fix” that will obliterate the program’s cost-controls).
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“It’s entirely beyond rational observation and conclusion.”
You are really funny, please explian why the GOP ledership caves, get’s weak in the knee’s, lack’s a spint then gives the left exactly what they want? Why did McConnel give the democrats everything they asked for in the lame duck session?
Why have they refused to attach an amendment to all bills repealing the HC law?
Why do they continue to spend like democrats?
Why do they fight anyone connected to the TEA Party?
You must be a leftist reubolican too.
All politicians innately desire power, that is why they are as individuals are generally inclined to run for office in the first place.
It is this is that same desire for power which inclines most politician toward bigger more powerful government.
We cannot be so blinded as to believe that mealy because a politician holds a “republican” or “conservative” title that they will all be above the temptation of power. This is no title, or ideology so strong as to immune men to this temptation.
As you have seen yourselves not even elections can moderate the desire for power. This is perhaps why Thomas Jefferson pointed out that it is the natural order of things for governments to grow and as a converse consequence liberty to recede. I am sadly resigned to the fact that it is likely a we will have to uses this fallacy of human nature against itself if we are to have any hope of reclaiming our rights.
The only alliterative might be a compete collapse & revolution.
But how do uses the desire for power to restore power/rights to the people?
Well we have two weapons here:
1: People desire control over themselves and their lives that is a political weapon.
2: Politican who all desire and fight for power with supposedly people being the deciding factor of their position can in theory have the outcomes of their battles “influenced” by the same people or a subset there of.
But why do we care if we are ruled by this tyrant or that tyrant? This is certantly a most valid question and point. The truth is all things being equal we don’t care. But all things are not equal. the local tyrant can’t prevent us from checking their power with our feet, the Federal tyrant can.
It is that one weapon, the only truly individual vote that exist in nature as in our political system(the power to leave/secede) that can and will liberate us.
For how can a tyrant rule without the consent of the governed if the governed can simply leave his domain of rule at will?
He can’t and simply trying tends to weaken not only him but the local mob of supporters that remain.(see California)
LOL - love it! Can you imagine what DC pukes would do if tens of thousands showed up in DC with real hot tar, bags of feathers and pitchforks?
It's too bad it'll never happen before Nov elections - but it damned sure should.
You're probably right - he has never failed to outrage me in many ways.
LOL - got a good belly laugh from that. But, why stop at 31 - make it 75!!
Yep - ubiquitous, just around the next corner, coming up fast, JMHO.
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