Update:
Health care for myself and my family comes out of my paycheck and an additional large chunk comes out of my pocket in uncovered expenses. Neither of those is a privilege – it comes from my ****ing hard work and that of Cruel Wife in all the things she does at home. It comes from our years of higher education and hours uncounted of unpaid overtime. It’s not a privilege and I don’t consider it a right of anyone to have their health care paid involuntarily by me and mine.
“We have to keep our eyes on what we’re trying to do here. We’re trying to cross a demarcation line,” Harkin told “Early Show” co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez. “On one side is health care as a privilege, on the other side is health care as a right. With these votes, with the vote that we’ll take before Christmas, we will cross that line finally and say that health care is a right of all Americans.”
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The main topic (next item down) is so thoroughly intertwined with pork that bacon is central to today’s thoughts.
Dates. The kind wrapped in bacon.
Take out the almond, and this is something I’m drooling over. Take a date, stuff it with goat cheese, and wrap it in bacon. Broil it until crispy.
If it sounds that good how can it possibly be wrong? I’m attaching a shrunken picture so you go to The Reckless Chef and give it a good look.
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We should all be considering term limits for congress in a different light.
Get rid of multiple-term politicians.
Vince Flynn wrote a book by the title “Term Limits”.
I don’t advocate the methods in the book but we sure as hell ought to be doing the political version, which is to take these politicians in congress who seem to feel that they can “do what is best for our country” in spite of what we want and politically kill them off.
One reviewer of the book on Amazon said:
Flynn’s Washington is a place of distrust, dishonor, duplicity, hypocrisy and murder.
That’s funny, so is my Washington.
Our president saw fit to travel to Copenhagen when the top issue among Americans has been shown time and time again to be jobs and the economy, and he and Hillary figured it’d be great for us to chip in to a $100B pool of money to combat climate change. Neither one of them has a lick of authority to do anything binding us to that.
Our congress – along clear party lines – is forcing the issue on a bill that not a single person in that governing body can understand the full import of by backroom deals, nighttime and holiday votes, and plain old intimidation. For what do they do this? For no good reason other than that they can with this kind of stacking in Congress.
From the outset, the White House’s core claim was that reform would reduce health costs for individuals and businesses, and they’re sticking to that story. “Anyone who says otherwise simply hasn’t read the bills,” Mr. Obama said over the weekend. This is so utterly disingenuous that we doubt the President really believes it.
And what do we do, in poll after poll? We bitch about congress and then in nearly the same breath say “But our rep (or senator) seems pretty good.” Wake up and smell the bullshit you are shoveling, people.
We are about to really understand the nuances in the term “Taxation WITH Representation”.
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While looking for images of “bacon” on Google, I ran across bacon bikinis and thought I should pass it on. I have no idea whatsoever what the rest of the site is about. Don’t ask, don’t tell me, either.
Can we wrap the politicians in bacon and “broil until crispy?”
I mean, it would be a waste of good bacon. But, can we?
Wrap ’em in bacon made from possum, and I think I could go along with it. Wasting pig is so… wasteful.
The only infallible, unstoppable, guaranteed way to get a truly new Congress is :
NEVER REELECT ANY INCUMBENT! AND DO IT EVERY ELECTION!
The American voter must IMPOSE term limits by NEVER REELECTING ANYONE IN CONGRESS, AND DO IT EVERY ELECTION! In other words, don’t let anyone serve more than one term. That’s the only way to teach them that the voter is boss! The “one term limit” can be eased AFTER citizens get control of Congress.
Congress will never allow us to constitutionally term limit them by an amendment. Our only choice is to NEVER REELECT them. All of them!
The number of ‘good guys’ left in Congress is negligible, so if we threw ALL 535 members out, we wouldn’t do as much damage as the good we would gain by by turning Congress into a bunch of honest, innocent freshmen.
Some of the reasons in favor of this approach:
• It gives us a one-term-limited Congress without using an amendment
• It encourages ordinary citizens to run for Congress
• It is supported by 70% of the country (see Rasmussen and Cato polls)
• It is completely nonpartisan
• If repeated, it ends career politicians in Congress
• It opens the way to a “citizen Congress” of guys like you and me
* It would open a torrent of fresh ideas to improve our government
• It ends the seniority system that keeps freshmen powerless
• It doesn’t cost money. But you MUST vote! Just don’t vote for an incumbent
• It takes effect immediately on Election Day
• It is the only infallible, unstoppable, guaranteed way to “Throw the Bums Out”
• When the ‘pros’ stop running, ordinary citizens will run and win
• If it doesn’t work, do it again and again! It will work eventually, guaranteed.
NEVER REELECT ANYONE IN CONGRESS. AND DO IT EVERY ELECTION!
Nelson Lee Walker of tenurecorrupts.com
Email nels96@gmail.com for your free NEVER REELECT bumper sticker
Think on this topic often, Mr. Walker?
Your Majesty
Were you being sarcastic? Have you visited my website?
http://tenurecorrupts.com or seen my latest video?
Hey Lemur King! I think he has thought about the subject alot…but it is a good idea.
These jerks make me so mad, they don’t care what the people want. At least we can have bacon.
PS: Thanks for your kind words over at cbullitt’s
I hope you have a Very Merry Christmas and get all your wishes granted from Santa. Happy New Year too.
Oh I agree, his ideas make sense, especially get all new congress-critters in there. The sitting politicians say “Nothing would get done!”
Uh… I don’t WANT you to “get anything done”. I want you to do the barest minimum. No more grilling athletes about their steriod use. No more passing of bills to spend ever more of our money without either balancing the budget and paying down debt through reductions in other areas. No more uses of my money in ways that cannot possibly be supported via the Constitution or clarified with the Federalist Papers (no international precedent stuff)
Congress’ powers and responsibilities are supposed to be very very limited and few with clear guidelines and they have turned themselves into an elected aristocracy.
Merry Christmas right back at you, Bunny. My wish from Santa is to keep my job and win the Lotto so I can quit my job. 🙂
Nelson, I’m always sarcastic and it happens whether I agree with you or not. In my case I agree with what you commented, and no, I haven’t gotten over to your website *yet*. I will though in the next few days I have off.
I think you could say that if I’m not funnin’ you, being sarcastic, or playing the melodramatic martyr, then something is wrong. If I am, we’re good.
So hope you didn’t take offense for none was intended.