The Weekly Enlightenment

Still a lot going on in the health care front this week. The big news was Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress. As with all Obama's speeches, it is couched in terms of what we must do, but it is based off strictly what Democrats want. The media ignores what Republicans are pushing, and presto, Republicans have no plans and Obama really cares about you. There was a curious admission from Obama though. During the speech, he said "30 million citizens". Is this a tacit admission that there are possibly 17 million illegals? I thought the number was 47 million, the figure Obama has used in all his other speeches. During the speech, Representative Joe Wilson (not to be confused with Democrat liar Joe Wilson claiming Iraq wasn't trying to buy uranium from Niger) shouted at Obama that he was lying. Which is undoubtedly true. In usual fashion, the feckless Republican leadership demanded Wilson apologize. So Wilson did. Now Democrats are saying they will admonish him unless he apologizes on the House floor. He should not. They were no calls to my knowledge of Democrats making their members apologize for booing Bush during his addresses. It's time for Republicans to quit being wussies and realize current Democrats really are radical and are bent on harming the country as we know it.

A couple other thoughts on my mind:
* Why should the rich pay more in any system? Isn't that discrimination? If everyone had to pay taxes we'd see change a lot easier.
* A funny comment I heard, pretty soon Obama will be blaming his low poll numbers on Bush, saying he inherited those too.
* Why is the media not lionizing our general in Afghanistan for calling for more troops like they did General Shinseki under Bush? They said Shinseki was speaking truth to power. Why the double standard?

MUST READ
* Exposing ACORN for helping out a pimp and prostitute, even with the importation of underage Central American girls. This has happened in both Baltimore and DC (see this), so I don't buy that it is a couple bad employees. ACORN is morally bankrupt.
* Why do Americans spend more on health care?
* Remember, Obama was once a lawyer for ACORN. A good article exposing how ACORN steals democracy.
* After all the scandals surrounding ACORN, why would you want them having to do anything with the census? If this was something done in the previous administration, I still condemn it. But what are the chances of the affiliation being ended had ACORN not been exposed?
* We are betraying the dead.

Liberal Lies on Health Care
* Taking on the lies from the left regarding how the House bill would not allow illegals to be covered or abortions. It also points out some ridiculous things people have to pay for in their health insurance, like breast implants, drug rehab, and marriage counseling.
* How to make an Obama speech (especially on health care).

Silly Liberals
* This is ridiculous. Notice how Gaddafi is a temporary member of the Security Council. Why would you help give legitimacy to such a farce as the UN?
* Why was there a huge rush to push the health care resolution through Congress when it wouldn't go into effect until 2013? Obama also promises to get savings by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from Medicare. Why not just pass that part of it right now?
* Obama's environmental czar was a true radical. And according to a close aide to Obama, Valerie Jarrett, they've had their eye on Van Jones for a while. The only conclusion is that Obama actually agrees with much of what Van Jones has done and said.

What Media Bias?
* The media was itching to write a comeback story for Obama. Perino wrote the piece before Obama's speech and was right on in how it was covered.
* Bias in deciding to publish photos of a dying Marine. Compared to not putting out the Mohammed cartoons.

The Weekly Enlightenment

Another great week. The biggest news was of course of Sarah Palin resigning as governor of Alaska. It's really no surprise. Multiple ethics complaints have been brought against Palin, all of which have been dismissed, but they keep bringing them. Obviously it takes time and money to fight these battles in court, and all the time is spent NOT being the governor of Alaska. Much speculation is that it is to run for President in 2012. May or may not be true, we'll have to see. Since it is all speculation, for now we just have to take it at face value. For this decision, however, Palin has been the target of a lot of vitriol from the press. Which is weird. For someone who is supposed to be irrelevant and stupid, they sure are focusing a lot of time on her. You can be assured when the press and Democrats attack someone, it's not because they actually are stupid or irrelevant (Rush Limbaugh has been called irrelevant many times throughout the past 20 years). It is because that person threatens their power. Palin connected with ordinary voters as being not part of the Washington establishment. She rallied conservative voters, many of whom would not vote for the maverick McCain and were demoralized from out of control Republicans. If she were really irrelevant, it would not be necessary to even bother with her, but they are. And she isn't.

Great point by Mark Steyn and Sean Hannity: Biden now says they didn't know how bad the mess was. But during the campaign, Obama kept saying it was the worst crisis since the Great Depression. Was he understating the problem by comparing it to the Great Depression? Of course not. Election year, trying to spin the economy as the fault of Bush, fine. But there's no way they underestimated how bad it was unless their talk before the election was deceitful.

Nuke reduction. Obama talked with Medvedev of Russia about reducing our nuclear arsenal. Put aside the question of whether Russia would actually reduce its arsenal. The whole idea behind this is that if only America would reduce its nukes, other countries would follow suit. So basically it is the same thing we always see with Obama, that no matter the circumstance, it is America's fault.

MUST READ
* Obama declares the Constitution optional.
* Simple economics. Insurance raises the price of medical care.
* This is what climate change is all about.

Silly Liberals
* Liberals stuck in the abstract.
* Why is Obama not standing by the people of Honduras?
* Releasing violent criminals has been part of the left's backwards justice system for years. Just another example.
* I doubt this would not be considered a hate crime. Hate crimes are just a tool to start regulating thoughts.

Energy
* It appears T. Boone Pickens is scrapping his wind energy plan. It's just not feasible that wind power will take over our energy needs.

Abortion
* Abortion from its inception was to root out undesirable races. Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood explicitly wanted to root out blacks. Now you have it from Ruth Bader Ginsburg.