First, fire everyone in Washington. They simply aren’t needed anymore with my system.

Next, put the entire tax system online. This should simplify things, and it allows us to automate my idea.

Now, put EVERY federal program in existence on the tax website. Taxpayers then get to choose exactly how much money they want to go towards any particular initiative. Taxpayers still have to pay their taxes, but we give them the choice of how it’s used.

Within one year, EVERY stupid, un-American program would be bankrupt. Popular programs would be funded out the wazoo. Semi-popular programs would have to tighten their belts.

Don’t like war? Use your tax dollars to fund the EPA.

Don’t like the EPA? Use your tax dollars to fund war.

Whatever. It doesn’t matter because it’s PURE democracy. People will vote for what they want with their checkbooks. What could be better? It’s introducing the free market into government.

It solves 100% of the problems in the country within one year. I’m not kidding. This is a great idea, and I challenge anyone to think of one reason why we shouldn’t do it (that isn’t a STUPID reason).

Discuss.

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The House bill looks like it was written by Karl Marx, and the Senate version is much worse. Now even some Democrats are jumping ship, possibly out of principle, but more likely out of political expediency. The last person to attempt this type of “reform” was Clinton, but he was smart enough to let his wife tackle it… he knew it was a hot potato and he didn’t want to burn his political capital on it.

Obama, on the other hand, assumed he had the sauce to get it done (just by his good looks and charm, apparently).

In order to get 60 votes, the Democrats need ALL of the Democrats to vote for the bill, as well as a couple of the fake Republicans like Olympia Snowe. The more moderate and conservative Democrats don’t like what’s being tinkered with in the bill, including Medicare and abortion funding.

The Republicans are unanimously (except possibly for Snowe) opposed to the bill, because it is blatantly communistic. Just what we need… a chicken in every pot.

Obama has once again overestimated himself. This bill requires far too much political compromise to ever make any of the constituencies happy, and if you’re gonna tick off EVERYONE, you’d be best just leaving it alone.

All of Obama’s capital is getting burned on this topic, and his approval numbers are plummeting in the process. He has lower numbers at this point in his presidency than Jimmy Carter or George Bush had… (either of them).

Obama and the Democommunists had better be careful what they do here. If they manage to pass some form of healthcare reform, it will be 100% their doing, and therefore 100% of the consequences will belong to them.

Ted Kennedy was a SUPER rich socialist who kept his tremendous wealth in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes. He was more of a “do as I say, not as I do” guy when it came to taxes, welfare, and environmental issues. Remember a few years ago when he canned an offshore wind energy farm because it was going to mess up his view from his mansion?

But probably most important to remember was that Ted Kennedy killed Mary Jo Kopechne by getting drunk and driving her into the Chappaquiddick to drown, and then didn’t report the accident till the next day AFTER he consulted his lawyers.

If you or I drove drunk and killed someone, then didn’t report it right away, we’d be doing time. Not old Ted. He was a very rich, very well connected guy.

Kennedy championed all sorts of cockamamie socialist crap during his 900 years in the Senate.

He was also a champion of killing babies:

Voted NO on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime. (Mar 2004)
Voted NO on banning partial birth abortions except for maternal life. (Mar 2003)
Voted NO on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)

Yes, Kennedy has a cool last name, he was inexplicably a Senator for 900 years after killing someone, and he had good hair… but other than that, Ted Kennedy was a disastrous Senator and did harm to this country that cannot be quantified.

One of the things that they intend to do is send “qualified experts” into the home of anyone expecting a child to do a home study and counsel them, “especially targeting low income communities.”

This is just one sinister sample of government intervention in our personal business. Obamacare is loaded with big brother stuff.

You won’t bother to read the bill, I’m guessing. Even more disturbing, most of the people in congress voting for the bill won’t have read it either. And if they have read it, chances are they don’t understand every aspect of it.

So we have a bunch of people in Washington voting on legislation that they haven’t read, they don’t comprehend, and that has had thousands of amendments added by every special interest group in the hemisphere.

Doesn’t seem very American, does it?

How can someone who claims to represent the people vote for a piece of country-changing legislation that most Americans oppose and that they don’t even understand?

If you haven’t read the bill, how can YOU possibly know if it’s good for the country? Are you just believing what someone is telling you? Are you believing OBAMA, who has broken countless campaign promises in just 6 short months?

Voting for something you haven’t bothered to read is an egregious abuse of power.

These protesters at the health care town halls are not minions of some evil conspiracy. They are regular citizens who are ticked about the concept of government-run health care.

Agree or disagree with their politics, but to say they don’t have a right to vocalize their beliefs is un-American. The Democrats have been planting questions for town halls, sending their own angry constituents, etc. for years. During the campaign that was their main tool.

It’s such a despicable double standard they’re applying.

If people don’t get loud and voice their objections, this health care ship is going to sail and we’ll NEVER be able to undo it. That’s why people are bent out of shape over it.

The Democrats did the same kind of demonization when the fair tax people held their tea parties. These were not fringe lunatics or anti-American protesters. They weren’t even anti-Obama protesters. They were anti-tax protesters. They were simply people who didn’t want to be taxed in order to bail out corporations… something the Democrats decided to do IN SPITE of the objections of the majority of Americans.

Private corporate takeovers were not something devised by the Bush people… that was ALL Obama.

That’s why it’s not acceptable to question. You can protest anything so long as it wasn’t Obama’s idea or important agenda point.

Obama’s health care reform is a giant cluster@#$@ that needs to be killed before it becomes law. We do not need the Borg running our lives.

I have been listening daily to Rush Limbaugh since I was 14 years old. I’ve missed very few shows. When I can’t listen to the program live, I listen to the podcast. This makes me a pretty solid authority on what Rush Limbaugh SAYS and BELIEVES.

Rush gets accused of a lot of outrageous things. Almost without exception, these accusations are based on snippets taken out of context. He’s become such a target of the left that even news stations don’t challenge each other’s reporting when it comes to these things. For instance, if MSNBC takes a snippet and says Rush hates Mexicans, you won’t see ABC news checking their facts and then challenging what they reported. It just won’t happen.

I suppose some of it may be jealousy. Rush has been the number one radio program in America since I was in junior high. That’s quite an accomplishment. He’s become the de facto conservative leader (not to be mistaken with the Republican party) in America.

Having listened to Rush for such a long time, you could hardly call him a Republican. Yes, he’s registered that way, but he is disgusted with the direction the Republicans have taken the past 15-20 years… as am I. Rush identifies himself as a conservative, not a Republican.

Rush does not want to be a Republican figurehead. He wants to be an entertainer. That’s what he’s good at. People thought he was crazy when he first started. “A three-hour talk show with NO guests?!” Yet he’s been doing that format ever since. People enjoy listening to Rush for a couple of reasons. He’s funny. He reports things that you just won’t hear on the news. Most importantly, he’s an optimist.

If you listen to liberal talk radio, it’s all doom and gloom. Even a lot of conservative talk radio is doom and gloom.

I stopped listening to other talk shows. Rush can talk about tough issues and still keep it positive. He offers hope to people better than the likes of Obama, because unlike Obama, Rush offers hope by encouraging you to DO IT ON YOUR OWN. Obama offers hope by promising that the government will save you.

I guess what I’m saying is, don’t judge Rush for things he hasn’t said or for things taken out of context. If you did listen to him for a solid week, you’d be laughing and nodding your head in agreement a lot more than you’d probably care to admit.

Why don’t we just cancel the programs?

Well, because too many people feel entitled. Entitlement means those programs will never get cut, because politicians are afraid the backlash would leave them without a job.

After the August recess, congress will vote on nationalized healthcare.

If it passes, that’s it. You’re stuck with it for the rest of your life. No ifs, ands, or buts. The program will cost more than anyone expects, it will be more screwed up than anyone expects, it will have terrible consequences (rationed care, less doctors, government deciding if you can have an operation).

But whatever cluster@#$@ the program becomes…. you will never get rid of it.

If the Democrats botch this, which they are dead set on doing, you can kiss quality healthcare and relatively low taxes goodbye. Small businesses will have no choice but to lay people off to afford the new system (not because healthcare will cost more, but because small businesses will pay higher taxes to fund the program).

Mark my words. Once this is done, it’s done.

You and your children and grandchildren will be stuck with whatever ill-conceived, half-baked, cockamamie plan the Democrats force through. The bill will be well over 1,000 pages, and not ONE person in congress will read it before voting for it.

I speak the truth.

If we don’t find a way to stop this, the federal government will become the Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

Of course those are generalities, but this is my blog and I’ll stereotype if I feel like it.

So given the assumption that most gay men are hunks of beef, doesn’t that make them ready-made for the military? Think about it… hundreds of thousands of hunky men all sleeping, showering, and working out together. If one didn’t know better, one would assume that the ENTIRE military is gay.

Hetero guys join the military because chicks dig a man in uniform, and it’s cool to carry a gun. Gay guys may very well join the military to meet men. I’d say that both are legitimate goals. The hetero guys get to have their reward when they’re on leave, and the gay guys get to have theirs while they’re deployed.

I’ve always thought the don’t ask, don’t tell policy was ridiculous, because frankly, there’s a strong homo-erotic overtone to the entire military. Unlike guys in the military, I’ve never shared a room with a bunch of guys, I’ve never showered with a bunch of guys… that doesn’t happen in the real world.

Some of you will now tell me that womyn make up a growing percentage of the armed forces. And that’s true. And I’m fine with womyn joining the military to find other butch womyn. That’s just as fair as men joining to meet men.

But Pete, you’re implying that most of the military is gay or lesbian!

Yup.

So why do you have a problem with that? Are you biased against gays?

I’ve mentioned before that the current political landscape was giving me anxiety and sleepless nights until I turned off the TV and radio. Well, I don’t live in a vacuum, so I’m still getting exposed to information about what’s going on, and once again… I am batting 1000.

Last November I predicted that Obama would carry forward with Bush’s Iraq policies. Yup, he’s doing that.

I predicted that the election of Obama would do nothing to CURE or AID race relations in America. Well, just yesterday Obama threw the police under the bus because they arrested his black friend who was throwing a fit. I think that pretty much sums that up.

I predicted that Obama would spend eleventy jillion dollars MORE than Bush ever wanted to on “fixing” the economy. He’s far exceeded my wildest expectations with his multi-trillion dollar “bailout” and privatization of banks and automakers. I don’t want to be too fatalistic, but the last country to nationalize private companies was Venezuela under dictator Hugo Chavez. Just saying.

Incidentally, the economy still sucks and unemployment is higher than ever.

However, I also predicted that Obama would pretty much get a free pass (Blame Bush for Everything) for his first year. So far so good for him, although you can see that his political capital is starting to wane…. just as I predicted it would once he started implementing his poorly thought out socialist policies.

I predicted that the Muslim world would still hate America with Obama as president. Hmmm… so far that’s playing out as well. Leaders of many Arab countries are saying Obama is no better than Bush. But then we add to that the fact that Obama has NO class when meeting foreign dignitaries, he’s also started alienating (at least personally) some of our closest allies… like the friggin Queen of England.

I predicted that once he was elected, the media would start to turn on him. That’s just now starting to happen. When the New York Times starts publishing articles that throw his health care bill under the bus, you know the court of public opinion is going downhill.

I predicted that the Democrats in Congress would resist a lot of his ideas. Yup. They certainly are. He doesn’t even have the support of all of the Democrats in Congress on his health care debacle…. err… bill. As luck would have it (and just as Hillary found out in 94), most Americans (nearly 90%) are happy with their current health insurance and don’t want the government dictating things to them. Why are Canadians coming to America and mortgaging their homes to pay for surgeries they can’t get in Canada? Nobody is leaving America to get health care in Canada. Nobody.

I predicted that Obama would be the second coming of Jimmy Carter. He’s well on his way. By the end of his term, we could very well see interest rates near 20% and inflation topping 10%…. just like good old Jimmy.

Yup, apparently having experience as a community organizer isn’t the same as knowing how to run the most powerful country in the world.

Go figure.

By the way, all you readers who broke into an excited sweat and watched his speeches while holding your breath… I expect you to stick with your decision and keep LOVING Obama. He’s doing EXACTLY what he said he would, and so for you to jump off the Obama train now would simply be you acting as a fair-weather supporter. I hated Obama’s socialist leanings BEFORE it was cool. I warned you, I begged you to see the light before he was actually in office, and you ignored me because a) he turned you on with his speeches, b) he promised to give you lots of free stuff that he planned to take from “rich” people, and c) he was black and it’s just cool to be part of something “historic”.

Barf.

Next time do yourself a favor and just trust me. The country will be better off.