Actually, they didn’t say “dangerous.” That’s the Worm’s lie. No surprise. He lies.
What he also didn’t say is what WUWT does: “…while 97% of scientists may agree that global warming is caused by humans, virtually 100% agree that global warming has stopped or slowed considerably during the 21stcentury.”
I still contend that this climate change dodge (a wholly-owned subsidairy of the Democrat Party) is a tax scam, just like Obamacare.
Via WSJ & WUWT
The “runaway train” the Wall Street Journal called Obamacare in 2009, when it was still roaring down the tracks to passage, all 1,990 pages of it. It might well be, said the Journal’s editorial writers, “the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced….eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics.”
And then it passed with only Democrat votes in the face of the polled opposition of a majority of the country. Then its Web site crashed, because it was a joke. (So is the new one.) Then people who already had private health insurance began to lose it because it didn’t meet the “standards” of Obamacare, including such things as birth control pills and abortions for everyone, including children and the elderly.
Finally more than half the states refused to set up the exchanges the law required for Obamacare to “work.” Came the mid-term elections of 2014 and the voters got even: many of those same Obamacare-voting Democrats lost their seats in the House and Senate. They’re still acting like they don’t know what hit them.
Now the Supreme Court is poised to send the train onto a siding that will take it over a cliff and out of sight. Whew. Not that Wormtongue has learned anything. He’s apparently readying a whole new train to do something like it all over again, unilaterally this time, by giving 5 million, mostly Hispanic, illegal immigrants amnesty and work permits. Once more against the wishes of the polled majority of the country, many Democrats and almost all of the GOP.
If he sends the new train out of the station, his party will cringe and if they’re smart the elected ones will start making plans for new employment after 2016.
And then we may have a good chance that these two Progressive train crashes back-to-back will keep the Democrats from claiming the White House again for a generation. Bye, bye, Lizard Queen and Groper. Even with millions of apparent new amnesty voters on the Democrat side and graft in their pockets from the big corporations lobbying for the amnesty. Party of the people, yeah right.
Posted in Obsessions, The Culture, The Economy
Tagged amnesty for illegals, obamacare at supreme court, Wall Street Journal
“It would…be a signal that [the new Republican] Congress understands the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution: ‘The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.’
“The authors of the Bill of Rights understood what today’s politicians and pundits often forget, which is that Congressional inaction is an opportunity for state or local governments, for businesses, or for voluntary organizations.”
Pipe dream? Undoubtedly, but we have to start somewhere. We have so many laws now that no one, not the police, lawyers or the courts, can claim to be anything but ignorant of the law. It’s an absolute excuse for official lawlessness and selective enforcement that needs reversing before it’s too late.
And while we’re dreaming, here’s the Congressional Reform Act.
Via Reason
Ever in search of votes from the uninformed, the Dumbocrats from Wormtongue on down have been busy championing hikes in the minimum wage. They always eliminate jobs, as employers seek to balance out their business models to fit the new new government regulations.
Comes McDonald’s hamburger joints with their balancing act: more automation. Soon you’ll be touch-screening away to order your burger-n-fries rather than talking to a live person. Until the Dumbos start calling for more pay for software.
Meanwhile the Queen of Benghazi, insisting that her party’s minimum wage goals won’t kill jobs, accurately assessed the state of the economy when she famously added “Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs.”
Certainly not anymore, thanks to her and her political cronies.
Via WSJ and Instapundit.
UPDATE: The Vietnamese, ironically perhaps, favor capitalism more than Americans do: “Vietnam’s advantage is that its own parasites haven’t had a chance to start spinning much of a web yet. Ours, on the other hand, have been at it for decades.”
So Wormtongue does his usual pre-election denounce-the-rich tap dance again, you know, the classic Democrat class warfare routine. But this time he does in the home of a rich man (literally Richman) where’s he’s collecting the big bucks:
“If Republicans win, we know who they’ll be fighting for,” Obama said. “Once again, the interests of billionaires will come before the needs of the middle class.”
Said the fellow whose increased regulations and taxes have done the most to destroy the middle class since FDR pretended to be fixing the Great Depression.
Via Instapundit.
Just 5.9 percent unemployment. Isn’t that rosy? Just what you’d expect pre-election from the bureaucrats and their Democrat overlords.
If you don’t believe it, you might be more concerned that a 36-year-high of 62.7 million Americans are not participating in the labor force. Home watching Oprah?
Those Democrat “disability” checks just keep on comin’, masking the true extent of our disastrous economy and its decreasing opportunities for the industrious young.
Via Drudge.
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, The Economy
Tagged pre-election gimmicks, that phony unemployment number
It’s been said that the rise of the tech plutocrats of Silicon Valley (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn) and the simultaneous decline of the American middle class is pushing us toward an economy of the rich and the poor who will earn their daily bread servicing the rich.
SNAP Kitchen, our pretty-well-off Northwest Hills neighborhood’s latest retailer, seems to be a good example of services catering to people who presumably can afford $2 for a deviled egg.
Hey, they’re spicy (Jalepeno, black pepper, etc.)! And cage-free. Whoop-de-do.
SNAP Kitchen (“fresh, healthy take-away”) also sells beef that’s “grass-fed” and produce that’s “conscientiously” picked. Mrs. C. said the latter maybe means they think good thoughts as they snip tomatoes from the vine and pull the carrots from the soil.
(They probably don’t realize that SNAP is the federal acronym for food stamps: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.)
San Francisco (bedroom community of the tech grandees) comes to Austin is what I call it. But the Downton Abbey Economy also works. While it isn’t good for a democracy not to have a middle class, it could be lucrative for the skilled journeyman. And as long as the Abbey keeps it civil, there won’t be any sabotaging of the home heating/AC (the electrical system, appliances and the plumbing) the Abbey doesn’t know how to maintain.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Texana, The Culture, The Economy
Tagged SNAP Kitchen, the Downton Abby economy
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