Animal Farm

As I was sipping my tea this morning, I’m thinking of a historical trip with my wife to Boston. History, in the old school books, talks about the beginnings of a revolution against a tyrannical king that made the colonist suffer with unruly taxation without representation. I so much love accurate history. I think we’re going to enjoy this trip.

Barack Obama – 2/9/2009 – But what I — what I’ve been concerned about is some of the language that’s been used suggesting that this is full of pork and this is wasteful government spending, so on and so forth.

Barack Obama – 2/10/2009 – And, listen, I know that there are a lot of folks out there who’ve been saying, “Oh, this is pork, and this is money that’s going to be wasted,” and et cetera, et cetera. Understand, this bill does not have a single earmark in it, which is unprecedented for a bill of this size, does not have a single earmark in it.

Chuck Schumer – 2/10/2009 – And let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little, tiny, yes, “porky” amendments. The American people really don’t care.

Even Chucky calls it pork. Oh, and yes Chucky, we do care.

Okay… okay, there is a difference between pork and earmarks, but this is supposed to be an economic stimulus bill. All those “porky” amendments have nothing to do with economic stimulus. To be informed is to read the information, or in this case, the bill.

Taxing the people of this land without giving those same people the benefit of a voice in how they are treated is tyranny. Patric Henry called it taxation without representation.

Here is an example of one of those “porky” things. Did you know that a health care provision was put into the bill? This one slid in under the radar. One of the things in the provision says that elderly people “must accept” the complications of getting old. It’s not much of a stimulus, but I can see where it would save the government money to not extend the life of the elderly. It’s for the sake of the country, mom. Soilent Green is made out of people! Oops, just remembering a movie I watched long ago.

Sneaking that in is the definition of pork isn’t it Mr. Obama? We didn’t have a say about that one did we? The aristocrats know what’s best for us surfs. What was that Patrick Henry phrase again and why did we leave King Gorge’s England? Well as the English say… Time for tea.

Since the anointment, our savior has said he wants to promote bipartisanship. President Obama (says he) wants to take the politics out of the stimulus package. The pretense is that he wants Republican input to the stimulus package and has held several meetings with Republicans leaders for this purpose, but when Republicans ask to see more tax breaks, his reply is “I won” (Barack Obama – 1/23/09).

Bipartisanship is a RINO going with Democratic policies. It’s bipartisan if 3 Republican Senators go with the stimulus package. But when 11 Democratic Congressmen vote with Republicans in the house version of the bill, it’s party line, polarizing, and being political.

When Bush talked about how bad the economy was in his early days, he was “talking the economy down”. Will Obama gets a pass? We’ll see… Tonight’s news conference will be to scare the sheep, and stop the phone calls in opposition to the bill that have been flooding Senators phones all day today.

If we are to listen to Hillary Clinton during the Bush Presidency, it’s patriotic to descent. Hmmm… only, I guess, when a Republican is President. When a Republican descents against the stimulus bill (or Obama’s Socialist bill), it’s standing in the way, obstructing. This isn’t change. It politics as usual.

First it was Bill Richardson, Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer, and now Hilda Solis. Does anyone remember the 500 lost FBI files found in the Clinton Whitehouse? If President Obama looks like “all the other politicians”, Hillary could be the Democratic Presidential nominee for 2012. The Mayan calander end in 2012. If Hillary were to be President, it might be the end of the world.