Obamacare: Deadly Doctors and Corrupt Politicians

Do you want to trust your health care to men like these?

Start with Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. He has already been appointed to two key positions: health-policy adviser at the Office of Management and Budget and a member of Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research. . . .

He explicitly defends discrimination against older patients: "Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years"

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Nor have most people heard about the arm-twisting, Chicago-style tactics being used to force support. In a Nov. 16, 2008, Health Care Watch column, Emanuel explained how business should be done: "Every favor to a constituency should be linked to support for the health-care reform agenda. If the automakers want a bailout, then they and their suppliers have to agree to support and lobby for the administration's health-reform effort."

Do we want a "reform" that empowers people like this to decide for us?

Good question.

Enough With the Birth Certificate Stuff

I have to confess, there have been times when I have wondered about Obama’s birth certificate and whether he was born in the U. S. But I haven’t researched the matter or given a lot of thought to it.

Thankfully, the National Review has and clears the matter up, at least for me. For better or for worse, the man was born in Hawaii.

And I heartily agree that those of us who are right of center have much, much better things to do than obsess about Obama’s birth certificate. He is a great danger to our freedoms; his agenda must be opposed. That is all the more reason not to divert our energies to this birth certificate stuff. Not to mention that it plays into Obama’s hands for us to act, well, nutty.

It is past time to drop it.

BREAKING: ++Rowan Williams Comments On TEC General Convention

The Archbishop of Canterbury has finally commented on the Episcopal Church General Convention.

I’m in the process of reading his statement and may comment later.


LATER:
Well, I’ve read the statement and don’t know quite what to make of it. In reading Dr. Williams’ words, one has to take into consideration his actions, which have enabled the apostasy of the Episcopal Church time and time again. Also, with Dr. Williams, when he understates matters, it is hard to know how much of that is British understatement and how much he is really underestimating a matter.

But at first reading, it seems there is much to commend the statement in spite of his side-splitting beginning:

No-one could be in any doubt about the eagerness of the Bishops and Deputies of the Episcopal Church at the General Convention to affirm their concern about the wider Anglican Communion.

I had a very good laugh out of that one. That is what you call receiving a deposit of crap and calling it a loving contribution.

Fortunately, the statement went uphill from there. I was particularly impressed with the following:

9. In other words, the question is not a simple one of human rights or human dignity. It is that a certain choice of lifestyle has certain consequences. So long as the Church Catholic, or even the Communion as a whole does not bless same-sex unions, a person living in such a union cannot without serious incongruity have a representative function in a Church whose public teaching is at odds with their lifestyle. (There is also an unavoidable difficulty over whether someone belonging to a local church in which practice has been changed in respect of same-sex unions is able to represent the Communion's voice and perspective in, for example, international ecumenical encounters.)

10. This is not a matter that can be wholly determined by what society at large considers usual or acceptable or determines to be legal. Prejudice and violence against LGBT people are sinful and disgraceful when society at large is intolerant of such people; if the Church has echoed the harshness of the law and of popular bigotry – as it so often has done – and justified itself by pointing to what society took for granted, it has been wrong to do so. But on the same basis, if society changes its attitudes, that change does not of itself count as a reason for the Church to change its discipline.

That is very well said and cuts through the fog surrounding such issues as well as Dr. Williams can be expected to do. And I am pleasantly surprised that he pretty much states that it is at this time inappropriate for practicing homosexuals to “have a representative function” in the Anglican Communion.

But with ++Rowan, the problem is not so much his words as it is his actions and inactions. If he were to stop enabling The Episcopal Church, then I would be really surprised. Maybe this statement is a beginning in that direction. But I seriously doubt it.

Obama the Uniter Update

Obama’s prime time press conference last Wednesday has indeed proved to be a disaster, particularly his “stupid” comments about the Gates arrest. Now, Rasmussen has 40% strongly disapproving of Obama. This is yet another jump in that number since the press conference.

For those on another planet the past few days, here’s a good summary of the Gates arrest situation.

It turns out that Obama’s stupid off-the-cuff comments weren’t so off the cuff. Before the press conference, he was briefed that he might be questioned about the arrest. Yet he still made his offensive comments.

I think Obama’s ill-advised comments illustrate that his instinct is to side with professional race-baiters and that he has a tin ear for the values of average Americans. He can conceal that fault very well when on a teleprompter, but when off, he lets it slip on occasion, and how!

Meanwhile, Gates doesn’t have any shame about the matter and just won’t shut up. Keep playing that race card, buddy.

Between Obama’s friends and his frequent press conferences, I may soon have to retract my past statements that he is no uniter. For he is uniting people . . . against him.

Swine Flu: Archbishops of Canterbury and York Recommend Communion of One Kind

In a measure of how deep the concern (scare?) over Swine Flu is in the UK, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have advised suspending the administration of the chalice..

The Archbishops do recommend accommodating those (like me) who insist on receiving communion of both kinds. Nevertheless, their advisory is remarkable, perhaps unprecedented.

AP: Obama IS Telling Some Whoppers on Healthcare

Some of my forbearing readers may think I’m a mean sadoconservative for pointing out that Obama is lying on healthcare. But look! Now even the mainstream news media is noticing that he is indeed telling some whoppers. AP has put out a fact check that concludes Obama’s statements are “somewhat at odds with the details in front of him.”

Gosh! You think?

I’m Not the Only One Laughing at Obamacare.

I’m not the only one laughing at the carnival huckster claims of Obama and his allies for Obama’s heath care plan. When Democrat Rep. Russ Carnahan told his constituents that Obamacare would cut costs and even create a surplus, they laughed at him.



If you also detected a bit of anger from his constituents, expect the same to increase across the country as people find out more and more about Obamacare, such as it covering illegal aliens.

Already a majority of Americans oppose Obamacare.

But, Obama, you said the American people were “on board.”