MAY DAY! 2010
Bensblurb #544 MAY DAY 2010
So they’re out protesting, as usual, about illegal immigrants’ rights. With the onslaught of big media’s resulting wall-to-wall TV coverage, I thought I’d get my licks in early. So I sent you Charley Daniel’s ruminations “under separate cover.” That’s how we used to put it, back in the old unlamented days of government snail mail.
The stars, I fear, have all aligned to gum up just about everything Washington has had on the front burners lately.
Cap and tax, meet your climate stars’ onslaughts: The West Virginia mine disaster and the Gulf oil explosion. And by nads a volcano for good measure. Then, to foul up all the bureaucrats’ best intentions, here came the new Arizona immigration law. Not to mention the SEC suit against Goldman Sachs, which just happened to hit right when Congress took up new financials-regulating legislation. Just a coincidence, of course.
With all that on his platter, do forgive Obama for quickly changing the subject away from his customary ridicule of all opponents’ ideas ( a-la Saul Alinsky).
I say customary, after observing his numerous curt putdowns of the GOP legislators who had met with him to offer critiques of his health care plan (now dastardly law).
And now he may never have another press conference. The National Enquirer has “revealed” he’s cheated on his wife with a campaign aide, dating back to 2004. Far-fetched? Maybe. But remember this is the same sensational rag that everyone ridiculed at first for uncovering the John Edwards baby episode.
Meanwhile, that Obamacare turkey is taking some licks, according to Grace-Marie Turner of National Review:
“Not one of its major programs has gotten started, and already the wheels are starting to come off of Obamacare. The administration’s own actuary reported...that millions of people could lose their coverage, that health-care costs will rise faster than they would have if the law hadn’t passed, and that the overhaul will mean that people will have a harder and harder time finding physicians to see them. The White House is trying to spin the [report] from Medicare’s chief actuary Richard Foster as only half bad because it concludes that, while costs will increase, only 23 million people will remain uninsured (instead of 24 million previously estimated).”
Wait, there’s more:
Washington Examiner: “[T]he president and his appointees said repeatedly over the last year that it would reduce government health care spending. Yet now comes Kathleen Sebelius, Obama's Health and Human Services secretary, confessing that ‘We don't know how much it's going to cost.’ Why is Sebelius only now saying this when her own department just made public a report obviously months in preparation that projected government health care costs overall will go up, not down? That same HHS report also said Obamacare's Medicare cuts could put 15 percent of all hospitals out of business, making treatment harder to get and especially for seniors.” But the sun is still shining, and will surely come up tomorrow, as per Little Orphan Annie.
--Ben Blankenship
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So they’re out protesting, as usual, about illegal immigrants’ rights. With the onslaught of big media’s resulting wall-to-wall TV coverage, I thought I’d get my licks in early. So I sent you Charley Daniel’s ruminations “under separate cover.” That’s how we used to put it, back in the old unlamented days of government snail mail.
The stars, I fear, have all aligned to gum up just about everything Washington has had on the front burners lately.
Cap and tax, meet your climate stars’ onslaughts: The West Virginia mine disaster and the Gulf oil explosion. And by nads a volcano for good measure. Then, to foul up all the bureaucrats’ best intentions, here came the new Arizona immigration law. Not to mention the SEC suit against Goldman Sachs, which just happened to hit right when Congress took up new financials-regulating legislation. Just a coincidence, of course.
With all that on his platter, do forgive Obama for quickly changing the subject away from his customary ridicule of all opponents’ ideas ( a-la Saul Alinsky).
I say customary, after observing his numerous curt putdowns of the GOP legislators who had met with him to offer critiques of his health care plan (now dastardly law).
And now he may never have another press conference. The National Enquirer has “revealed” he’s cheated on his wife with a campaign aide, dating back to 2004. Far-fetched? Maybe. But remember this is the same sensational rag that everyone ridiculed at first for uncovering the John Edwards baby episode.
Meanwhile, that Obamacare turkey is taking some licks, according to Grace-Marie Turner of National Review:
“Not one of its major programs has gotten started, and already the wheels are starting to come off of Obamacare. The administration’s own actuary reported...that millions of people could lose their coverage, that health-care costs will rise faster than they would have if the law hadn’t passed, and that the overhaul will mean that people will have a harder and harder time finding physicians to see them. The White House is trying to spin the [report] from Medicare’s chief actuary Richard Foster as only half bad because it concludes that, while costs will increase, only 23 million people will remain uninsured (instead of 24 million previously estimated).”
Wait, there’s more:
Washington Examiner: “[T]he president and his appointees said repeatedly over the last year that it would reduce government health care spending. Yet now comes Kathleen Sebelius, Obama's Health and Human Services secretary, confessing that ‘We don't know how much it's going to cost.’ Why is Sebelius only now saying this when her own department just made public a report obviously months in preparation that projected government health care costs overall will go up, not down? That same HHS report also said Obamacare's Medicare cuts could put 15 percent of all hospitals out of business, making treatment harder to get and especially for seniors.” But the sun is still shining, and will surely come up tomorrow, as per Little Orphan Annie.
--Ben Blankenship
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posted by Ben Blankenship at
10:25 AM
