The Four Types of Politicians

Principled Politician:

Believes that the rules and regulations set forth by the government should reflect certain principals. They may be liberal or conservative, capitalistic or socialistic, that doesn't matter. He believes that his job, the job of the Government, is to serve the public interest the best that it can.

Power Seeking Politician:

Has no principled beliefs. He is in politics to gain personal power and wealth. He can change sides as necessary to stay important. To him the government is nothing more that a tool to be used for personal gain.

Patsy Politician:

He has no real principals of his own. He is not personally concerned with anything but is easily swayed by flowery speeches into supporting the cause of others. He likes the attention of government service and is many times oblivious to the consequences of his actions.

Pretender Politician:

He is not in government to serve the public interest or to gain power. He does not support a democratic form of government at all. He can not change the government from the outside so he pretends to serve the people in order to affect change in the system it's self. He takes advantage of the Power Seeker's selfish desires and the Patsy's tendency to be easily manipulated to push an agenda of "reform".

To be sure, the end goal is not the welfare of the public, but the conquest of a nation.  Not to reform our government, but to replace it.

Let Washington Control Our Healthcare?

From Bloomberg News:

Obama and his allies in Congress are pushing to extend coverage to the 46 million Americans without health insurance, at a potential cost of $1 trillion over a decade. The separate Medicare proposal, announced July 1, slashes projected spending for care by cardiologists and oncologists by more than 10 percent each, while paying family doctors 8 percent more and nurses an additional 7 percent.

The cuts would be “impossible” for some small-town cardiologists who rely on Medicare patients, said Zia Roshandel, a heart doctor in Culpeper, Virginia. The town of 10,000 people is about 60 miles southwest of Washington.
Roshandel and two partners see perhaps 50 patients a day at his practice, the local hospital and a community clinic for the indigent, the 40-year-old said in a telephone interview. Medicare accounts for two-thirds of their clientele, he said.
Already squeezed by government and private insurers, Roshandel said he has cut office hours, forgone paychecks and shifted his 12 workers to a high-deductible insurance plan over the past two years. The latest proposal would push him out of private practice altogether, most likely to a hospital in a larger community less reliant on Medicare, he said.
‘Close the Office’
If the proposal stands, “the bottom line is I’m going to close the office,” he said. “This is impossible for me to survive. If my partners and I don’t get a salary and run it for free, maybe then we can survive.”

Read the whole article here.

That's what happens when health care becomes a budget item.

I'M THE KING OF AMERICA!

One reason Obama remorse is growing across America is the realization that the White House really has know idea what they are doing.

Case in point: Health Care Reform

The right has labled it Obama-Care. The left has quickly made it clear the president hasn't submitted a bill. There is a House bill being written, and a Senate bill being written.

But we thought that Barack Obama had his own plan to fix the health care problem? So where is the President's bill?

He doesn't have one. You see, the group of youngsters we have in in the White House today really have no idea what the job of the president is.
It could be that after watching the media accuse Pres.Bush for six years of ignoring the law and constitution rights, they got the idea that the the term president meant king.

And what does a king do? He makes decrees like "I want affordable health care for all." And then it's congress' job to work out the details.

We were told Obama was too young and inexperienced. I guess they were right.

Now it's a Moral Obligation! Health Care Reform

Let me get this straight, the party that said "You can't legislate morality" is now telling us that passing their Health Care legislation is a "moral obligation"?
They have spent so much time promoting the idea that morality is personal and subjective and not fit for public discourse. But now, being devoid of any logical argument to push through their bill, they need some reason beyond reason, some motivation beyond the boundaries of argument.

So they've found religion.

DNC: "Let the decree be heard throughout the land, our government now has the authority to proclaim what is moral and what is immoral."

It would seem to me that if health care falls into the realm of morality, then it falls out of the realm of government legislation.

The Hundred Day Hurdle

Well, we've made it through the first 100 days of Change. Humm. O.K.

Still waiting Mr.President.

Of course the "Change" promised by Barack Obama was to kick out the Bush bunch. That was supposed to make everything right because "they" were what was wrong. "Eight is enough" of what? "Help me take back America" from who? “Change” versus “More of the Same”.

Well, we got rid of them, didn't we. And I'm glad. As far as I'm concerned, eight years of any politician is enough, be he president or congressman. But it doesn't help your yard to get rid of the ragweed and leave the crabgrass. They're both weeds. All we did was give the other weed more room to take over.

Maybe we would have seen more change if he would have changed more. Didn't he notice that there were democrats infesting the House and Senate over the past four years too? Now I don't expect any candidate to campaign for someone of another party, but that doesn't mean they can't push for new blood in the system.

But that didn't happen. And things in Washington remain the same. I pay my taxes while Washington pays back it's supporters. And since I'm not a millionaire auto executive or banker I won't be receiving any checks from the White House any time soon. So I'll keep plodding on trying to keep up with those ever incresing bills.

Funny thing is, all my life, after cashing my checks and paying my bills, all I've ever had left is...

you guessed it...

"change".