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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
Pork reigns supreme
Captain Ed has the details on the latest report regarding Democrats, earmarks, and pork spending – this time on hospitals in towns and cities that would benefit their re-election campaigns:
While the Democrats hailed the SCHIP legislation as protecting America’s children, its real intent appears to be protecting Democratic backsides. It rewards hospitals in suburban Democratic districts such as Maurice Hinchey’s in New York and Bart Stupak’s in Michigan by forcing Medicare to pay above-market rates to hospitals in those areas. The Democrats hid these earmarks by casting them in gobbledygook geographical descriptions that sound broad but actually describe specific hospitals.
Democrats want to exploit Medicare to pay above-market rates in these hospitals to curry favor with unions and with local voters. For instance, a rural Alabama hospital that has not even yet been built will get higher payments from Medicare because it will be listed as a “critical access” facility. It normally wouldn’t qualify for that status because of the proximity of another hospital, but Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) got language waiving the standard for any hospital built in Butler. Coincidentally, that’s just where Rush Health Systems had planned to build the new hospital.
All done in the name of ‘helping the cheeeldren and elderly.” Surprise surprise.
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Stewardship, honor, integrity, principled, trustworthiness, concern for the nation, and competence are just not the sort of words that come to mind when one things about Congress, regardless of party. Terms like venal, self-serving, greedy, sell-out, unprincipled, short-sighted, narrow, special interest, able to be bought, and lacking integrity are the sort of things that just naturally seem to apply to Congress. Is this what is really good for our country? I don’t see how it can possibly be! Why do we continue to send these rascals to Washington? It seems to be in large measure because no honorable person will put up with all the personal badgering and financial pressure that is involved in running for office. We need to change this system in a major way!!
Cue George Harrison:
Have you seen the bigger piggies in their starched white shirts?
You will find the bigger piggies stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in
doctorj got me thinking… I’m now thinking that Democrats “care” more and Republicans could “care” less.
This is evidence that compassionate conservatism is not compassionate….
Vote Democrat and get funding to a hospital near you !!!
I for one am DISGUSTED with the conservative right for their hatred of pork. Pork comes from a magnificent beast who gives us pork, bacon, ham, sausage, pork rinds and even chitlins for the brave of heart (and nose/stomach). What does a cow give you? cow parts, and ground cow. That’s it.
That you guys would disparage such a grand beast is unconscionable. We should be raising our glasses to the great and noble beast that is the hog and immediately stop all this complaining about… Oh, you’re talking about a different kind of pork, huh?
In that case, carry on. Good job!