Reflections From a Murky Pond

As all who pay even the slightest of attention to American politics know, the Democrats attempting to rule this nation are seriously considering using the Budget Reconciliation Process aka the “Nuclear Option” to ram ObamaCare through now that they’ve lost their supermajority in the Senate with the election of Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA).

What’s interesting in this situation is how far the worms have turned in the span of slightly less than five years and one change in majority power. In 2005 the Democrats had a slightly different view of the filibuster and the Nuclear Option.

Obama, Biden, Reid, and Other Dems On Nuclear Option in 2005

No matter how one feels about the filibuster and the Nuclear Option, it’s important to compare the Senate Democrats’ opinions and the force and stridency of their rhetoric in 2005 when they were in the minority and a Republican was POTUS vs. how they feel now in 2010 when they’re the majority and a Democrat is POTUS.

Shall Americans measure them by their own yardstick? It would seem that President Obama and his Liberals had best hope that we don’t.

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You got to give Barack Obama the credit that he is due; he may well be focus of the greatest existential threat to America and to Liberty in at least several generations, but he does possess the rare innate ability to drop gems of humor when he forgets to let the TOTUS decide what he should say in public, even a carefully controlled a scripted venue.

You’ve just got to laugh at this little blip of truth and humor; when I first read it, I thought it was from Biden:

I think private insurers should be able to compete. They do it all the time. I mean, if you think about, if you think about it, um, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. Right? The, uh, no they are. I mean, it’s the post office that’s always having problems.

– President Obama
August 11, 2009, Portsmouth, NH Pseudo-Town Hall

Exactly, Mr. President! You’ve, quite unknowingly and unintentionally hit the nail on the head. UPS and FedEx are doing just fine while their government-ran competitor is failing and falling into chaos.

Americans do not want, and will fight tooth and nail against, spending literally trillions of dollars in order to “give” us a healthcare system that functions no better than the US Postal Service as compared to the private system that we Americans already have and are largely content with.

In any case though, in January, 2013, when President Obama becomes unemployed – don’t fret; he gets to keep his health insurance for life – he should really show the video of this blurb to his friend, Wanda Sykes. She might be able to get him a comedy special on one the cable networks.

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Tragedy struck the White House Monday, July 13, 2009. Midway through his speech on urban and metropolitan policy in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the Teleprompter, correctly referred to as TOTUS, came crashing down and shattered into hundreds of fragments.

The Teleprompter-in-Chief Crashes

Fortunately the Vice-TOTUS, standing to Obama’s right was able to smoothly get Obama’s attention and finish the speech.

Authorities have not, as of this posting, released the status of the TOTUS. We must just hope and pray that the White Technical Staff can save him.

Our thoughts and prayers should go out to the TOTUS. Leadership aside, who will read bedtimes stories to Sasha and Malia in his absence?

Questions remain as to whether this tragedy was caused by stress and overwork or if it was an assassinate attempt. If the latter, I’d humbling suggest investigating Vice-President Joe Biden; he has a longstanding hatred of the Teleprompter.

It could also have been – if it was an assassination attempt as opposed to a stress-related breakdown – instigated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She is likely still bitter of the 2008 Demcratic Primary race and people who have aggrivated or embarrassed her have had the odd habit of dying suddenly…

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