Friday, August 14, 2009

Absurdity Bred From Desperation

The Obamacrats are showing signs of stress now that Obama's poll ratings are well below 50% and the populace is in an uproar over the schemes to socialize and spend away the nations wealth and credibility. Such stress produces some truly absurd outputs, some of which are here:

Obama uses the Postal Service as an example to demonstrate why government bureaucracies are not a threat to private enterprise. The Post Office is always the one that has problems, he explained; the private companies are doing just fine. WAIT! Isn’t that just exactly why we don’t want a government run, bureaucratic health care system?


Obama says that seniors won’t lose out in the new government health care plan. Even though some 70% of health care usage is by seniors, and cost cuts have to be made somewhere, they say; and even though the Obamacrats plan for Medicare to be cut by hundreds of billions of dollars. Nothing to worry about there, granny.


Congressperson (D Mich) Debbie Stabenow says she can feel the global warming when she flies. "Climate change is very real," she confessed as she embraced cap and trade's massive tax increase on Michigan industry - at the same time claiming, against all the evidence, that it would not lead to an increase in manufacturing costs or energy prices. "Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes." Stabenow is now on the Senate Energy Committee. Someone should count hurricanes and tornados for her.


Harry Reid confirms that dissenters are “evil mongers”.


And from hotair.com:
“Patterico and Lone Star Times capture yet another banner moment from a town-hall forum hosted by Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) . … Roxana Mayer introduces herself as a doctor (a general practitioner for four years) in order to support ObamaCare and Jackson-Lee in a fairly hostile crowd. For her efforts, she gets a big hug from the Congresswoman, an image which the Houston Chronicle featured prominently on their website coverage of the event."

But it turns out that Mayer not only is not a doctor, she was a delegate for Obama, and a lead organizer for Organizing For America in ’08. And it turns out also that the Houston Chronicle knew it, got caught, removed the reference but never issued a correction. According to Saul Alinsky, it’s OK to lie unless you get caught; it’s not OK not to lie if you get the chance. So Mayer and the Chronicle messed up by getting caught lying.

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