U-turn

Supposedly Obamacare has now hit it’s initial target of 7 million enrollees … and according to its namesake … in a snarky Rose Garden address this afternoon … it now is the eternal law of the land and cannot be repealed … see: Powerline Comments.

Even if one is gullible enough to believe such Orwellian newspeak, I sincerely doubt that this law and all the damage it has done and will do … cannot be transmogrified or even rolled back entirely. I seem to remember that Great Britain nationalized its railroads, electricity generation, coal, and steel industries after the Second World War. And when Margaret Thatcher came into power in 1979 all this socialist malarkey was knocked into a cocked hat … as Maggie did a u-turn with her nation’s economy … fervently privatizing everything she could find.

And is not the current administration doing its level best to roll back an even bigger law of the land ...  our Constitution? 

So President Obama, I know that it may be difficult for you to digest or even understand … but you do not get to write your own short paragraph in the history books.

I wonder from what Nirvana well ... politicians, such as our current toddler-President, drink to get their over-sized egos?

Great Idea ...

Wrong person.  The Barry, in an election-year U-turn is proposing measures that would make our federal government leaner and meaner.  See: Earthlink Article.  Three measures he has proposed are:

1) merging six major trade and commerce agencies into one and eliminating the Commerce Department, 2) tax incentives to bring jobs back to the U.S., and 3) eliminating corporate tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas (does this include G.E.?).

Now this would be a giant HOORAY if Obama's track record indicated that he was trustworthy on such matters.  Unfortunately, he pulled a trillion dollar scam on the American people with the stimulus package in 2009 that did little more than siphon federal tax dollars into public service unions and produced very few "shovel-ready jobs" as promised.  So one has to look sideways at this new proposal and expect that, if Congress were to approve it as is (note the corporate tax increases ... most every large company has foreign affiliates), Administration magicians would find some way to augment the Democrat re-election war chest with more resources.

Or, if Congress were not to endorse this pig-in-a-poke proposal, then The Barry would have one more bullet-point to decry in his re-election campaign ... which seems to be pointing toward his running against a "do-nothing" Congress.  So the U.S. legislature is boxed in and will probably have to pass such a measure.  But, the House of Representatives should take this opportunity to expand this law even further into significant government downsizing and include so many caveats that Obama can't find his way into reversing its effect.  Then, if Harry Reid does Obama's dirty work and kills this proposal in the Senate (more do-nothing evidence) ... or, if The Barry wouldn't ink such a measure, then the real purpose of this election-year grandstanding would be revealed ... which, hopefully, would then be communicated to the American public (ha ha).