Quick Thoughts

On my way to dinner for a friend, here is some stuff I have been collecting the past week...

1. The New York Times mentions the health care bill has bad things in it and may not lower premiums at all. Where were they before the bill was passed?

2. Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy asks that we all act like adults when it comes to Obama's judicial nominees. What about Bush's?

3. Remember how dissent was supposed to be the most patriotic thing when Bush was in office? How does the current administration and media (both parroting that line) treat the Tea Partiers? Obviously with derision and contempt. Not so patriotic any more when Democrats are in charge.

4. Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick is forcing insurance companies there to insure people at last year's rates. So what happens? Since people know the insurance companies can't charge higher rates, they simply wait to get sick to get insured. Now the insurance companies just don't want to insure anybody, since they have to take a loss on it.

5. Obama has expressed desire for John Paul Stevens' replacement to be one that has empathy. So, basically on criteria other than the law. Better not be the big guy before the eyes of the law.

6. Dick Morris writing at thehill.com, mentioning that the new financial bill allows Obama and Secretary Geithner to take over any financial institution if they deem it too big to fail and on the brink of insolvency. Unfortunately, it passed the House already.

7. Obama says "whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower". Liberals are screaming it is out of context, and I've read the context and it isn't much better.

8. Henry Waxman canceled the hearings for the CEOs to explain why they say health care costs would go up even though Democrats say they will go down. Presumably someone mentioned that they were simply following the law.

9. From Rush. We consistently get polls on the racial makeup of the Tea Partiers. But why don't we get polls and investigations on other groups? Of course the only reason is to imply the Tea Partiers are racist.

10. According to Pelosi, giving money to people who don't pay taxes is considered tax breaks. More Democrat redefinition.