Must reading for Sunday
...after Theo's post below, of course.
There are problems in health insurance cost and coverage, but not in the quality of care and the innovation instinct, and the Democrats are going to kill the latter in the fruitless quest for improvements to the former.
Above quote pulled from Hugh Hewitt's article at Town Hall, found here. Get fired up. Call or write somebody in Congress. Hugh has a great suggestion of where to start.
And this is from Politico:
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama landed in New York Saturday afternoon, and after taking a helicopter from JFK into Manhattan, drove up the West Side Highway, where the northbound lanes were shut down by police for their visit, past Ground Zero, into the Village for dinner at the Village's Blue Hill restaurant. From there, they went north to Times Square, where they went to to see a production of "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" at the Belasco Theater on West 44 Street.Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest read a statement from Obama: "I am taking my wife to New York City because I promised her during the campaign that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished."
Asked about the cost of the trip, which Republicans have criticized as indulgent, coming just ahead of the expected announcement of GM's bankruptcy filing on Monday, Josh Earnest told pool reporter Dave Michaels of the Dallas Morning News, that he "didn't anticipate being able to provide a cost estimate tonight."
Well, I'll be happy to provide an estimate the day after: Half a mil, easy.
Barack said he'd compensate the White House budget with the price of 2 round trip tickets, Washington to JFK. Go read the whole article to get a feel for the indulgence of our queen and king. Two C-5s or C-17s to move the motorcade to NYC, 3 helicopters on each end, lost time and overtime for NYC's police and firefighters, plus lost time for the residents (citizens and voters) stuck in traffic or detoured.
The cost of the Gulfstreams (plural), used as Air Force One and for hauling staff for this short flight, will be the least of the costs. It will be the only cost mentioned in the MSM, if at all, and expect our president to be applauded therein for his frugality and environmental consciousness for not using the 747s this time.
Hat Tip for both articles to Instapundit, who seems himself to be growing tired of the "fierce moral urgency" arguments of the administration. I know I am WAY past tired.
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Such a sense of entitlement. But then they have grown used to it. Is His O'liness as smart and sophisticated as people think or did he get there partially by his color? What has he done? Jesse Jackson: "He ain't run nothing but his mouth." When you agree with Jesse Jackson there's a problem.
And as for Michelle--her senior paper at Princeton was an extended whine about being black at Princeton.
I thought that papers were not about you but about what you learned. Wouldn't a paper about be something that you'd pay a shrink to read?
She said that people told her she didn't have the grades to get into Princeton--which she complained about, from Princeton.
These are people who think of themselves of beautiful and entitled people. But their facile, and I'm using that word advisedly, climb to power is revealed by Barry O's shameful handling of the piracy. Three days? Someone who was a real leader would have handled that in two hours.
I miss Slick Willie. He wanted to be a rock-star president. But I really miss the Hildebeest. She's a monster--a calculating, mean, grasping totalitarian, but at least she wouldn't let the nation fall apart under her watch, which is just what I think that the Obamas will do because tending to business will cut into their precious face time with the camera.
Question: has he done any hard work yet, or has he merely acquiesced in others' Marxist dreams?