I Got Mail

Both President Obama and Senator Patty Murray emailed me tonight. Both emails came within 10 minutes of each other. Both had the same message. Their health care plan is good for you. The lead off good thing they both are excited about and are are offering America is this: Senator Murray: “insurance companies would no longer be able to refuse coverage to individuals due to preexisting conditions.” President Obama told me this: “No discrimination for pre-existing conditions.” I wrote back to pose this question:

Wow. That is good. But let’s think about that. Let’s say we got the same deal with auto insurance. Let’s say that auto insurance companies couldn’t turn us down for our automobile’s preexisting condition. Sweet! That means I can drive uninsured and then go get insurance after I wreck my car! Let’s apply the same principal to life insurance. And let’s apply the same idea to fire insurance for our houses. I wonder how long it would take before insurance companies would go broke. Why would you sign up for insurance before you needed it if there was no downside to waiting until after you needed it?

Think I will get a reply?

Palin's 4th of July Fireworks

Sarah Palin has again diverted all attention towards her. Remember during the campaign when Barack Obama was going to do his big speech in Denver? All eyes were on him. Then out of nowhere, McCain announced his new running mate. She immediately took center stage. You know that Obama’s team was stunned by the fact that she was stealing attention away from him like they had never seen before. Well, she is back.

Yesterday’s announcement was calculated to have a similar affect. It was another out-of-the-blue moment. Just when the people who hate her had been put on their heels, she took center stage again. This time she doesn’t have just a few short months to gain support. She has three full years. And during that time, Obama will have to get used to the fact that he will be sharing the front page with her. What does that mean? There will now be a countering voice that will make it to print and will be heard on mainstream TV.

Oh, the radical left will not be on their heels for long. You can already feel them gearing up. Make no mistake, they hate her. They have already announced that her quitting her job in Alaska has somehow disqualified her from going on. Well, let’s see. That decision is best made by people who will vote, not by people who hate her. And, ironically enough, if she runs, Obama’s best criticism of her is her lack of experience. All he has to do is point out how his lack of experience has really messed things up.

MSM: Just Another Administration Department

One of the themes that I keep coming back to is the one where the Main Stream Media has willingly allowed the Obama Administration to use it as its own tool to reshape truth and reality. There are deniers in my audience, which is curious because the fact is not hidden anymore by the media, itself. Anyone who continues to deny this is most likely practicing an extremely high degree of personal censorship, choosing only to access media that stays within the confines of the approved party-think . So much for freedom.

What is great about these times is that no sooner do I post my concerns about something than something happens out there that documents it better than I ever could. Such is the case here. Doubly so.

First is the case of Helen Thomas. She is the Grand Old Dame of the Washington Press Corp that goes all the way back to the Nixon years. Her seniority with this group has been something that has been honored for decades by Democrat and Republicans alike. She is the one who signals the end of the Press Conferences by saying “Thank-you, Mr. President.” Obama changed the event format by selecting a planted blog reporter who was armed with a known question. Then, when he grew weary of answering questions, obviously skipping over Helen Thomas, one of his own staffers rose and said, “Thank-you Mr. President.” I hope this is a wake-up call for her. With past Presidents she was known for asking the question that he didn't want to be asked. Wouldn't that be a change for President Obama?

Second, we have the Buy Your Influence Right Here event fully sponsored by the Washington Post. Powerline gets to the essence of the matter. WAPO, upon discovering that its slip was showing, has done some serious back-tracking since they broadcasted the flier for the event. It is so blatant in its unabashed effort to formalize and galvanize a WAPO/lobbiest/Administration group for the purpose of policy making that its own Editors were shocked and horrified. I am impressed that some in their organizatoin are still fighting for a remnant of intgertiy. Why bother? Just change your name to PRAVDA and go with it.

A couple of interesting observations about the WAPO fiasco. First, it was an "evil " lobbiest who recognized the ethics problem and broke the story, not newsmen or Administration people. Second, apparently the New York Times has made it a front page story. Wow, so much for professional courtesy. That means it might even get to the networks. Do I detect cracks in the armor?