Well, I’ve said of both of them that they’re the gift that keeps on giving, so it would provide a certain fundamental continuity.
We libruls want to enact universal health care, bring global warming under control, and minimize the harm the current recession wreaks on people’s lives.
They want to think they’ve outsmarted us. I’m torn between feeling amused, and feeling sorry for them.
Sarah Palin is citing a “higher calling” in quitting. This according to a story from MSN.
She apparently wants to push an agenda on the national front, and can’t do that from Alaska as Governor.
So says Teh Sarah.
That’s just more of the same incoherent bullshit as yesterday. She’s also playing the victim card again in that because people have been critical of her decision. It also says her lawyer is hysterically threatening to sue anybody under the sun who has the nerve to speculate about her real motivations:
She really despises free speech, doesn’t she? The fact that thge lawyer singled out Shannyn Moore probably means she’s dead on about the embezzlement investigation.
I’m reminded of something William F. Buckley once said: *“Liberals mean well but do ill and then excuse their ill-doing by their well-meaning.” *
Just the other day I was reading an article on the private health care clinincs that have been springing up in Canada as an alternative to the national Canadian system that requires roughly a year’s wait just to get a CAT scan. And sure enough, the doctors populating them were being excoriated for draining doctors from the national system, thereby making long waits even worse, and the patients for using their own money to ‘unfairly’ obtain health care more readily than their less well-heeled countrymen.
Nationalized health care is a disaster for everyone except those who don’t have health care to begin with, and that problem could be fixed in a way much less harmful than bringing everyone’s care under the auspices of the United States government.
And here’s something I haven’t seen discussed around here - how long do you think it will be until financial pressures result in the government denying you treatment if you smoke, are overweight, don’t exercise, don’t eat the governmentally mandated low-fat diet (a diet which is coming under criticism more and more as being a more harmful diet than a low-carbohydrate diet) etc.? In other words, once the government gets control over your health care, it gets control over your life.
Why aren’t “libruls” content merely to solve the problem of those who need health care but don’t have it, rather than trying to bring everyone under the inefficient and uncaring auspices of government beaurocrats? “Mediocrity and scarcity for all above excellence and plenty for most!” appears to be the liberal battle cry.
I hate to continue the hijack, but I’m curious: In which countries that have National Health Care is this happening now?
I’m tolerating a certain amount of fluff on the basis that it is inevitable, but I do not have to encourage fluff or Pit posts.
They play with blue balls.
Victim card, Sarah?
She’s being HOUNDED!
This appears to be the full text of her statement here:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/2009/07/sarah-palins-4th-of-july-message.php?ref=fpblg
I’m waitin for my doorbell, too RING!
And I ‘got a feeling’ that if you had a more substantive way to rebut the numerous citings of liberal hypocrisies that I post, your defense would consist of more than asteroids and the championing of rudeness and incivility.
But then that’s just me…your mileage obviously varies.
BTW, there is now a Pit thread open for general pointing and laughing.
Further expressions of scorn or hilarity may be posted there.
Who are these other “honorable” quitters that she’s referring to? What the hell is she talking about?
I dare say you are almost certainly correct. I would only add that, back when I was in public relations, the First Law of PR was “Never sue for defamation, it only keeps the story in the papers longer.” This public gauntlet throw-down from her attorney (what’s known in the biz as “your mouth writing checks that your ass can’t cash”) reveals how amateurish the whole Team Palin operation is.
Wow, your latest attack at “liberals” is almost as disjointed as Palin’s resignation speech. BTW, WTF does it have to do with the topic of this thread, Sarah Palin’s resignation?
I reacall three occasions when you made bold statements about such things, then noted that the [del]dog ate your homework[/del] computer swallowed your effort, but I don’t recall much more.
OTOH, that does not seem to be relevant to Governor Palin’s odd remarks over the last couple of days, so you might want to open a new thread to discuss them–or demonstrate a direct tie-in to the governor’s decision to abandon her post.
I don’t know. Ask RTFirefly, whose post I was answering. He’s the one who brought up health care, global warming and the recession?
It’s amusing how you guys start screaming about off-topic responses you don’t like while invariably remaining mute about the off-topic claims that trigger them.
And I recall an occasion when you accused me of behavior I had not been engaging in, and you refused to recant and apologize. Given that I was truthful in my comments whereas you weren’t, and given that you refused to recant and apologize because according to you I’d been mean to you in the past, I’d say the greater offense lies with you.
elucidator loves to tag me as a ‘conservative gadfly’ who delights in exposing the hypocrisies of the left. While he is certainly correct, that comment alone doesn’t prove the point. Just do a search with elucidator as the poster and ‘conservative gadfly’ as the keywords, and I’m sure you’ll find them.
But as has been shown with your accusations toward me before, you don’t like to engage in searches that prove you wrong, do you?
Take your mischaracterized complaints about other posters to the Pit.
I can help. She’s a weasel and a chickenshit. There I said it.
Take this to the Pit, as well. It really is not a discussion of Palin’s last couple of speeches.
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I just read that. “And though it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make.” Higher calling? Countless others? What the hell is she talking about?
She also said she’s accomplished more in one term (of 2 1/2 years, not deducting the three months that she was on the VP campaign trail) than most governors do in two terms. The details of her accomplishments were not reported.