Category: The Rise of the Nanny State
Not Civil War, But Maybe Ross Perot
Thanks to a tip from Carol of No Sheeples Here, I read this interview with actor and conservative political voice Jon Voight. Voight is concerned that the President and his various left-wing flying monkeys are stirring up a civil war in America. “There’s a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil [...]
An Inconvenient Car Leads to Inconvenient Lives
This video (via Instapundit) makes me inexplicably sad. Some chucklehead, who should never be allowed to drive anything powered by more than a lawn mower engine, traded in a Chevrolet Corvette in order to buy one of the government-approved cars under the Cash for Clunkers program. Ordinarily, some car lover with a sense of history [...]
Well, That’s Kind of the Point of Cap and Trade, Isn’t It?
I’m fairly sure this is not a bug, but a feature. The House-passed climate change bill, if enacted, would expand the federal government so much that it would take billions of dollars and thousands of new employees to implement. Now-obscure federal agencies such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [...]
What Has the President Really Given Up on Health Care? Not Much At All.
You know, it may well be that Sarah Palin controls the world from her Facebook page. As Sissy Wills notes, Palin engaged Obamacare in two places — “death panels” and the public option — and on both of them, the Obama administration has folded. Or have they? From what I’ve seen, the administration has fairly [...]
It Wasn’t Obamacare that Made America Angry, Dems.
Watch this, then ask yourself if it’s really all that unreasonable for folks to be angry at their legislators. She excused her rudeness by saying, “In Congress, we have to multi-task.” Oh, that’ll mollify the people you treated like serfs. I’ve been percolating the thought recently that the voter anger we’ve been seeing over Obamacare [...]
Pelosi Suffers a Blue on Blue Beclowning
Today, the Dumbest Speaker of the House EVAH wrote: These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American. Drowning out the facts is how we failed at this task for decades. [Emphasis Mine] Meanwhile, her union thug allies [...]
Sit ACLU, Sit. Good Dog.
Remember when the ACLU considered its job to be skeptical of the intentions of government? You really don’t have to remember much farther back than the end of last year. But under our new President, it didn’t take very long for the ACLU to roll over and show its belly. That’s the subject of my [...]
Pelosi and Hoyer Have Crossed the Line
It’s come to this: the official position of the leadership of the House Democrats is that vocal, public opposition to whatever they want to do is “un-American”. This burns me. It’s not enough that Pelosi and Hoyer are lying through their teeth about what their health care scheme will do, once they finally figure out [...]
That’s What You Said