A Couple of Political Thoughts

On Health Care Reform - I'm actually starting to feel sorry for Barack Obama. He made his 1,324,278th speech on health care reform today. Pretty much every time he speaks on this, public opinion goes down. The Republicans are against it, and are actually being reasonable...asking simply to start over with a clean sheet so we can get something everybody wants, rather than something nobody wants. But, what's more surprising is the Democrats are not unified on this. They see the writing on the wall, and they no they are in trouble come November. The Dems know that this is political suicide for them, but unfortunately their leader won't let it go.

This is actually why I feel a little sorry for Obama. Based on his behavior, this is obviously the first time in his life that he's been told no, and he doesn't know how to react. Instead of compromise or rethink this entirely, he's just digging his heels in and continuing to push a failed agenda. Sort of sad, isn't it?

On Jim Bunning - This week Senator Jim Bunning held up an extension of unemployment benefits because the Senate didn't have a way to pay for it...imagine that. This measly $10 billion dollar bill was supported by both parties, but Bunning decided that the Senate should actually start enforcing their rule of "Pay as you go" or "Paygo." Because of this, he was met with overwhelming ridicule from the media and the Democrats. They did their usual "the poor people without jobs will be hurt, yada, yada, yada." Finally, Bunning caved last night and agreed to the measure under the promise that the Democrats would find $10 billion to cut somewhere else.

This entire thing shows just how pathetically out of touch the Democrats are, and how illegitimate the left wing media is. Frankly, the media doesn't even try to be unbiased anymore. The amount of money we are talking about, $10 billion, is nothing to the Federal Government. They could have easily taken $10 billion from the bailout or TARP funds, but rather than even try to look for the money, they were just going to drive us farther into debt. What Bunning did is a start...hopefully next time the Democrats try this (I blame the dems because they are the party in power), more Republicans will stand with Senator Bunning. This debt is going to crush us...Washington politicians have run wild for too long, and it's about time a someone said "enough"! Nice work Senator Bunning!