Thursday, June 18, 2009

Democrats in a Hurry on Bank Seizures

President Bush has criticized President Obama's policies.  I guess he was tired of being blamed for everything wrong with America, but it's a shame that Bush completely lacks credibility on issues of limiting government.

 

Democrats are trying to push the Obama administration's bank seizure proposals through Congress quickly.  These proposals will destroy free-market competition.

 

Max Baucus is trying to cut the cost of his health care proposal, down to $1 trillion.  They are also not likely to take up the bill until after the July 4 recess, which (hopefully) will be the death of the proposal.  Remember that the bill, as drafted, does not even include the "public option" for health insurance (and it still costs $1.6 trillion over the next decade).  Economists are saying that the private sector will see higher costs as a result of the Obama administration's plans to pay for socialized medicine, but no cost cuts will be enough because a public option will turn into a fiscal mess like Medicaid.  Despite President Obama's claim that a single-payer health care system works some places, his press secretary can't name any of them.

 

ABC is even refusing paying ads for their prime-time Obamacare special that would be critical of the big government program.  I like Michelle Malkin's idea:  put John Stossel on the show.

 

The city of Brooksville, Florida has passed a revised dress code for city employees that requires underwear and deodorant.

 

The latest twist to welfare will pay parents to take care of their own children.

 

The Obama administration wants to push to pass cap-and-trade next week.  They're trying to get this thing passed before too many Americans realize that it's going to cost them $1,500 a year.  Al Gore is invested in a car company that will be building the favored cars of the Obama administration.  The members of Congress who are working on this bill hold stock in companies that will benefit from capping carbon emissions.

 

Guess what the Pentagon considers "low-level terrorism?"  I'll tell you that we have one coming up on June 30.

 

Watch Barbara Boxer scold a General for not calling her "Senator."  How pathetic and self-hating do you have to be?

 

State House Transportation Chairman Vance Smith has been chosen as the new commissioner of the Department of Transportation.  This is the same Vance Smith who wrote the House transportation bill behind closed doors with a bunch of Republican donors.

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