I was just attending the Tea Party in front of the Capitol.  Tens of thousands of people!  There is a resurgent conservative movement in this country.  We will stop this socialist tsunami.  The American people will not acquiesce to the propagators of serfdom.  God Bless America!!!

Honduran dictator wannabe Zelaya “said he hopes that Clinton understands that “the same opponents of Obama in the US are mine in Honduras. The transnational trade, oil and banking systems. Those who do not want health insurance here are the same as those who do not want to pay a living wage in Honduras.”

Kindred souls, heh?

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090921/hayden_zelaya

The so-called public option which enails government-run health care system has been applied in various countries in the past, most notably, in the Communist USSR.  In the Soviet Union, hospitals, grocery stores, hotels, and even restaurants were owned and operated by the state.  Yet as we all witnessed, the government-run system in Soviet Union was an appalling failure which resulted in severe shortages and sharp decline in living standards.  In trying to have the government take over the health care system or the portion of it, what makes you so confident that the government, rather than the free market economy, can get the job done?  Do you believe that the Soviet system of state ownership failed because the Soviet functionaries made mistakes, or do you think that the idea of government ownership of economy was fundamentally erroneous?

You may also ask variations of this question such as: 

If we rely on the free market system for the most basic necessity of our livelihood – food, then why should we not apply the same criteria to health care and other vital areas?  Is health care more important than food? 

You often state that public option – that is government run health care system will alleviate problems in our current system.  Can you point to a single example worldwide where similar government involvements have resulted in sustainable success?

Today’s horrific indicators at the Dow Jones Industrial and S&P 500 clearly demonstrate that investors have no confidence in Obama’s stimulus package and Geithner’s bailout plan.  Deep down, most investors know that Obama is mortgaging America’s future on liberal pipedreams, and like those bad assets which sparked the economic downturn, this monstrosity will make things worse.  I actually disagree with those who predict that with or without the bailout package the economy will start to recover.  Obama will not stop at this bailout.  His decisions on domestic economic front and foreign policy venue will continue to keep investors off balance and paralyze the markets.

I have numerous centrist friends who voted for Obama basing their decision on Illinois Senator’s supposed moderation.  But Obama is no moderate.  Never has been.  The man is in his upper forties.  He has never held a position other than those subscribed by the far left.  A good and reliable measure of a person’s political philosophy is his past behavior, not soothing words.  A part of our society’s problem is that we refuse to take things at face value.  We attach greater importance to rhetoric rather than performance.  We value disposition over character.  When someone has spent 20 years at the church of Jeremiah Wright, that should be a clear warning sign.  When someone has surrounded himself with Communists throughout his youth and adult life, that should be a warning sign.   But then again, many of us don’t necessarily see a problem with Communism. 

The only reason as to why this stimulus package was not any more leftist, is because Obama could not find another Congressman to the left of Nancy Pelosi to draft this legislation.  Obama the President is doing exactly what Obama the Senator did in his brief but telling tenure in the Senate.  He took the position furthest to the left even within his own party.  Regardless of what he says, Obama the President will continue his far leftist policies as long as he is in office and he will try to inflict severe damages to the edifice of our republic.  Today’s was the first salvo.  And it has been barely 3 weeks.