Glenn Beck at CPAC

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A warning to the liberal left

via Powerline.

As Powerline states, this doesn’t perfectly apply to those of us who didn’t buy the b.s. that the left was selling.  Still, I’m looking forward to what is coming.

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Great Danger in “Guidelines”

This was initially posted over at truehopetruechange.com.

Today’s news that the U.S. Preventative Task Force has changed its advice that women should start regular mammograms at 50 rather than 40 will surely anger cancer organizations and medical doctors worldwide.  The anger should not stop there, however.  As we are in the midst of a debate on nationalized health care this has staggering ramifications on the health care that Americans could come to expect under government-controlled health care.  Consider two points:

• The “numbers” show that a 40-year-old woman has a .19 percent chance of dying of cancer before she turns 50, so it’s quite reasonable that government-controlled health care will not cover mammograms before the age of 50.
• Groups of people – death panels – will decide what kind of health status of people (including age, likelihood of success, etc.) get treatment and what kind of treatment

When you put these two factors together, you get a health care system that is both deciding you cannot be screened for an illness before a certain age, and then determining whether or not you can be treated if you do get the disease anyway.  Your only recourse is to pay for this screening out of your own pocket.

Now this is a true women’s issue, and one that should have all women in this great land very, very afraid of government-controlled health care.  Call your Senators now and oppose the public option!

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Sigh: ”President Obama not long ago told the American people that he would support policies to reduce abortions, but today he is effectively guaranteeing more abortions by funding groups that promote abortion as a method of population control,” said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee.

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The Obama Circus

Obama says we should do all we can to eliminate the need for abortions, then institutes policy to hand our tax dollars out in support of it.  We knew he’d say anything to get elected.  The people who voted for him aren’t important to him now.  Ironic, considering…

It’s been a rough start in more ways than one, too.  Let’s hope he can at least pull it together for the sake of national security.  He can be a failure at everything else as far as I’m concerned.

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Messianic Expectations

I am currently reading “Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life” by Archbishop Chaput of Denver.  I came across a very fitting two paragraphs, as they relate to events that are about to unfold in Washington D.C.

The Catholic Church has had many different relationships with many different states in many different eras.  What we’ve learned is this: We will never build God’s kingdom here on earth.  When people have messianic expectations about the state, when they ask politics to deliver more than it can, the story ends badly.

But neither will we ever be released from the duty to sanctify, humanize, and bring Jesus Christ to the public square in which we live.  And it is precisely because of this duty that the American experiment is so hopeful—and so important. (emphasis in original)

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National Sanctity of Human Life Day

President Bush has proclaimed tomorrow “National Sanctity of Human Life Day” in the United States.  Please say some extra prayers for all human beings, from conception to natural death, and pray for a conversion of those who do not recognize the sanctity of human life.

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According to what?

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it.  We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments.

-James Madison

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Everything changed

Until the mid-1930s, America was a nation that basically said to its citizens: “Your forefathers have given you freedom, so good luck, see you around, hope you make it.”  Then came the Great Depression, World War II, the Great Society, the Age of Aquarius, the Me Generation, and finally the anything-goes Clinton years.  Throughout those generations everything changed.  While John Kennedy once asked what you would do for your country, modern politicians were suddenly lining up to tell you what they were going to give you, and one of the biggest entitlement pushers around was JFK’s brother, Senator Edward Kennedy.  Most give-away programs have been complete failures, but the rhetorical battle continues today.

-Bill O’Reilly, Who’s Looking Out for You?

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“Scalable”

It’s funny how our politicians always assume that we are all less intelligent than they are.  Consider this little note on the Session Daily about education “reform” in Minnesota. In it:

Full implementation of the bill would cost between $2 billion and 2.5 billion, said Greiling, the sponsor of HF2. However, she said it could begin with “just one penny” because it offers a “scalable” plan intended to be “phased in” as funding is secured. It has been referred to the House Finance Committee.

Yes, the plan is “scalable” in that it ranges from doing nothing to improve education (which could be done for free — get rid of the under-performing teachers and administrators) to spending a whole heck of a lot more money to make the odd school a little higher-performing.  We all know from years and years of this that they will take that odd example (that could just be a statististical blip) and use it to get another $4 billion in 4 or 5 years (again, in the name of “education reform”).  If you can’t smell the baloney in this, then maybe the politician was right about you.  Not me, though.

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