Remember the huge controversy brewed by congressional Democrats when president George W. Bush’s Justice Department dismissed seven United States Attorneys on Dec. 7, 2006?
Democrats conveniently ignored the fact their unlikely hero, President Bill Clinton, had sought the resignations of all 93 U.S. attorneys — including one who had been probing some of the crimes of the Clintons and their Arkansas cronies — upon taking office in 1993.
We’re now instructed there are some functions which just have to be funded by government taxes — there’s simply no other way to do it.
Courts, police, fire departments, ambulances …
On Monday, President Barack Obama pitched his scheme for a government “reform” of American health care and medical insurance to the American Medical Assn., continuing a public-relations blitz designed to push the pricey scheme through Congress.
As is becoming typical of his approach, the president warned all parties — doctors, hospitals, insurance companies — that each would have to “sacrifice” something under his plan, but then attempted to sweeten the pot by offering something back — in the doctors’ case, some partial protection from the fear of malpractice suits that now lead doctors to order (“just in case”) expensive medical tests most parties consider unnecessary.
A lot of things people do in an attempt to “think green” and “leave a smaller carbon footprint” can end up backfiring.
As complex eco-systems which man has never been able even to accurately predict — let alone control — are simplified to the level of Miss Nancy of Romper Room advising the children to wash their hands and “Do Be a Do-Bee,” should we be surprised?
Last week the U.S. Senate sent to the White House and President Barack Obama signed a bill that will allow the federal Food & Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products for the first time.
Those who fight to stop Americans from using tobacco cheered. The change means flavored cigarettes will be banned, they asserted; advertising aimed at children will also be barred; dastardly cigarette manufacturers will no longer be able to claim that some cigarettes are safer because they have “low” levels of tar and nicotine.
Here in America, citizens and other legal residents have every right to stage rallies, protests, and demonstrations on any topic that tickles their fancy.
But they ought to say what they mean. It’s reached the point where some of these characters use so many misleading code words that you need some kind of Politically Correct secret decoder ring.
In old-fashioned retailing, it’s called the “Bait ’n Switch.”
Advertise a product at an unheard-of low price to draw in the shoppers. Once they arrive, the salesman goes to work, showing them how they can get SO much more value for their money if they’ll just “step up” to the next higher quality model, at an ever-so-slight increase in price. You DID want the extended five-year warranty for a modest additional six dollars a month, right?
Asking politicians whether they have enough taxes yet is like asking a 10-year-old boy if he’s had enough ice cream and soda pop.
Wait a minute: could I have just stumbled on the germ of an idea, there? If Americans like to drink soda pop … of course! Why not hit the stuff with a hefty new federal tax?!
The forces of political correctness once vowed that, should they ever take over, their free expression on all kinds of issues — from gay rights to amnesty for illegals to space aliens inspiring the pyramids of ancient Egypt — would no longer be censored.
Censored? Heck, spouting the PC line is now MANDATORY, as many a professor lately hauled before a college Star Chamber on charges of having “given offense” now learns.
How about that photo on page 3A of Thursday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal, featuring Nevada’s Assembly Speaker, Democrat Barbara Buckley, giving a big horse laugh as she wound down her triumphal 2009 legislative session?
Or the equally shocking image, on page 1B, of Democratic Assemblyman Morse Arberry and supposedly Republican John Carpenter of Elko, trading broad grins and some kind of secret “statist power” handclasp, both obviously pleased with their “job well done”?
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