Ed Morrissey has the quote of the week. Concerning Obama’s pitch for the Olympics in Chicago:
In short, this is a microcosm of the entire administration. They entered into a situation about which they knew nothing and put the prestige of the presidency on the line without bothering to listen past themselves and the Daley Machine in Chicago.
Two things today.
1. This column from the NYTimes where two brothers decide not to donate a kidney to their dad lest they be dropped from their own coverage leads to the columnist deciding we MUST pass this health reform bill.
I believe that one of the Republican ideas about health insurance reform is disallowing the dropping of coverage once a condition pops up.
1000 pages of unreadable reform is not the ONLY route for fixing this particular problem.
2. This column about how insurer discrimination is surely going to continue even after reform is pretty clear.
While the author apparently wants to convey that there will be ways to get around the new system, aren’t health insurance companies mean? What I get out of the article is different.
Reform – as it currently stands – will end up destroying private health insurance.
UPDATE: Be sure to read the WSJ John Mackey interview regarding Whole Food’s health insurance ideas.
Scott notes what might or might not be happening in NJ this November.
I agree, it’s going to be interesting. Which way is the pendulum swinging now that people actually have gotten to know President Obama. And his ilk. And the left.
In my hometown – we too are going to be greeted with an election this November which will be telling for my little town. Last election our council swung far to the left. This election we could potentially swing right.
And just like the nation Longmont is a microcosm of what’s going on. People on the left decided that “civility” should be in order for everyone. (now that their man is in office anyway – please don’t ask them how civil Bush was treated)
They created an advisory board and even convince two people of the right to join in, just to keep this election here civil. Before even a second complaint could be read, the two on the right have realize what a big mistake they made. Civility for the left means not accusing anyone of anything. Even when it’s the truth.
Even if you’re a private citizen and want to share your views. If you have seen wrong doing of the left and you want to bring it up, the left will accuse you of being “uncivil”.
Nicolle Pratt-Unger and Russ Stacey resigned from the committee Thursday, saying it wasn’t functioning the way they had hoped and fearing that the direction it is heading will do more to keep people quiet than to keep candidates civil.
“I think it created more controversy and incivility than it cured,” Stacey said of reactions he has heard from the community.
