I'm a cypher, wrapped in an enigma, smothered in secret sauce. Also, my name is Kev and I own this here website.
My upbeat feelings expressed in yesterday’s post (which went over with readers about as well as dental surgery without Novocain based on the little traffic and zero comments it received) have passed.
Today, I’m annoyed.
I’m annoyed by Obama’s smug smile during the ceremony where he signed the health care bill. I’m annoyed with Joe Biden’s smile. I’m annoyed with Michelle, who I’m sure was smiling, hideously, somewhere off camera.
I’m annoyed that Obama and his cronies in the Senate were able to cram their health care bill down our throats a mere two months after declaring during the State of the Union address that UNEMPLOYMENT was the country’s number one priority.
I’m annoyed that taxpayer-funded abortions inexplicably made it into the bill. This is inexplicable on so many levels. But beyond that, it’s vindictive. Now, not only do pro-lifers have to live in a world where the killing of unborn babies is legal, we have to live with the knowledge that our tax dollars help make it happen. What’s this? A paycheck? Nope, it’s my contribution to the killing of someone who could have grown up to do great, wonderful things. Thanks Obama. Thanks a lot.
I’m annoyed by all the people who somehow believe health insurance is your right as an American and that it’s the government’s role to ensure you have it.
I’m annoyed by the large segment of the uninsured who are this way due to their own doing. No one told you to get pregnant at 16 and marry a fellow high school dropout who is unqualified to ever secure a job with employer-sponsored health coverage. No one told you smoke for decades. No one told you to eat fast food and sheet cakes your entire life. No one told you to buy that motorcycle and shout “hey guys, watch this!” as you did an asinine stunt without the aid of a helmet.
I’m annoyed that anyone who reads this and isn’t one of my blog regulars will shout that I’m insensitive, mean spirited and so on. I ooze sensitivity, Jack. I just do not, AT ALL, suffer fools. And the fact of the matter is that everything that has happened in this country lately can be traced to fools or people who do suffer fools. And that, my friend, I cannot stand.
So yes, smile, Barack. Smile really big for the camera. I just hope you realize you won’t be smiling someday when Satan is poking you in the rear with his white-hot pitch fork.
;-) 3.23.10 at 2:25 pm:
Allow me to point something out. Now, first let me say I don’t live and breathe politics, perhaps I am not qualified to even comment on this, but I will anyway just to add what I do know to this debate….
You say “I’m annoyed by all the people who somehow believe health insurance is your right as an American and that it’s the government’s role to ensure you have it.”
According to John Locke, aka the Father of Liberalism (but actually just as influential to the Republican party, yes, Republican, not Democrat), “If God’s purpose for me on earth is my survival and that of my species, and the means to that survival are my life, health, liberty and property- then clearly I don’t want anyone to violate my rights to these things. Equally, considering other people, who are my natural equals, I should conclude that I should not violate their rights to life, liberty, health and property. This is the law of nature”
Law of Nature… sound familiar? “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
See there? “Law of Nature, right there in the first paragraph of our declaration of independence. So did our forefathers mean that we were all, as Americans, entitled to those things John Locke said God intended for us to have? Life, health, liberty and property. It is historical fact that John Locke and his theories were influential to American revolutionaries, and those theories of his are reflected directly in the American Declaration of Independence.
So why do Americans think it is their right to have health insurance? Perhaps because our forefathers told us so.
;-) 3.23.10 at 2:36 pm:
Yesterday’s post made me smile. Today’s post did not. I keep hoping if I close my eyes and don’t hear anything about this that it will all go away. I prefer to live in my own world where personal responsibility is still a reality.
;-) 3.23.10 at 3:09 pm:
@Ronda: You are more than welcome to comment and disagree with me. No worries there.
Still, I’ll keep my response brief. For starters, you know me well enough to know I’m going to take the thoughts of anyone dubbed “the father of liberalism” with a suspicious eye and a grain of salt. Did he influence some of the Founding Fathers? Sure. Does that mean we should embrace all his beliefs and intertwine them with the beliefs and intentions of those who drafted the Declaration of Independence? No, I don’t believe so.
Secondly, and mainly, the Declaration was written to express grievances the colonies had with King George III (and thereby justifying their reasons for their independence). It’s the U.S. Constitution I care about, and there is nothing in the Constitution that states the government can require citizens to purchase health care coverage. And there most certainly is nothing in it that talks about taxpayer-funded abortions.
As you can probably tell, I’m for the government staying small and staying out of our business. This bill flies in the face of all that, which is why I loathe it.
@Sarah: Glad you liked yesterday’s post! Sorry you didn’t care for this one so much.
If only we could close our lives and transport ourselves to such a world. But alas…
;-) 3.24.10 at 1:19 am:
Speaking of white hot, that’s you with this post. Another great one, Kev. You articulate the anger and frustration so many millions are experiencing. Everything this presidential administration has done thus far has been so inhumane, so selfish, so hubristic, it is difficult to imagine how they can top themselves … but somehow I know they will. Let’s never give up the fight … tooth, nail at the ready … give ‘em some civil resistance they won’t soon forget.
;-) 3.25.10 at 2:48 pm:
@Jenny: Thanks for the kind words. I loved the “March Sadness” post you wrote, too. You hit the nail right on the head.