Sewage by any other name, still stinks!

Now, in eleventh-hour secret deliberations behind closed doors over a complete socialistic takeover of one-sixth of our economy (the health care industry), Nazi Pelosi has a "flash of Genius"; to rename the distasteful "Public Option" as the "Consumer Option". As if it will magically become more palatable to the public at large, and therefore become easier to ram through their holy grail of power grabs and enslave the public to government. She must have revisited her marketing 101 book from community college for that stroke of genius!


No matter what they decide to call it, it still can't pass the smell test. They should just incinerate the rotten corpse of an idea and start over by actually sitting down and talking with the conservative Republicans in Congress.

I spoke with one of my doctors today at the Infectious Disease Clinic at the hospital about the whole debacle.  I lamented that the same government that can't even grow a damned virus competently (H1N1 shortage anyone?) desires to take over our entire health care system. She countered that it was private companies that actually are manufacturing the virus. I didn't correct her, but I have heard otherwise. Or at the very least, the government sets all the standards for the manufacturing of flu viruses. So in one way or another, the government is ultimately responsible for the failure of the system to produce mass quantities in a timely manner. As is usually the case, government "regulations" create barriers to creativity, and hamper the natural process of creative destruction that is required for any economy to grow and thrive.


When government controls the means of production and distribution, that is by definition, statism also known as socialism. Where is the "choice and competition" in that?


In late breaking news today, independent Joe Leiberman, and even Olympia Snow have announced that they are not backing Harry Reid's push for a government option! Way to go Joe! Now the only bi-partisan action regarding the whole health care debate is with the opposition! LOL.


The thousand plus page legislation is becoming more and more gangrenous by the minute, and the putrefied stench of decomposition hangs heavy in the rarefied political air on Capitol Hill. The liberal horde should smell defeat and cut its losses, but instead they may just be lurching in the death throws, posturing in that telltale fetal position; one can only hope!