Sunday, September 22, 2013
If there’s one thing liberals/progressives can’t handle
it is being held to their own standards. They support higher taxes but shelter
their wealth in trusts and tax havens, which already is earned and no longer
taxable as income, so they can avoid the death tax. They claim “the rich”
aren’t paying their “fair share” and decry “loopholes” but then avail
themselves of every deduction their accountants can find. They will not live
the way they seek to impose on others unless and until it is imposed on others,
and then only maybe.
In the case of Obamacare, Members of Congress of both
parties did not want to give up their superior health insurance for the system
they imposed on the rest of us. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, saw this for the
hypocrisy it is and proposed an amendment to the bill that forced members and
their staff to do just that. It made the final cut in the bill because to
oppose it would be to admit before passage the system progressives sought to
force on Americans was inferior to what existed.
Now that it’s the law, well, that’s a different story.
Congress, with significant pressure from President Obama, forced the Office of
Personnel Management to “reinterpret” the law to allow significant subsidies
(our money) to be paid to them and their staff to cover the cost of premiums.
If you’re in a similar income bracket and situation in the private sector you
can’t get the deal they gave themselves.
That’s just one of many little “quirks” in the Obamacare
saga. President Obama has waived unworkable pieces, unpopular pieces (for “the
right people,” not you) and simply ignored others. Deadlines written into the
law are optional when the president wants them to be but set in stone when
Republicans and the American people do.
That’s why Friday the House of Representatives passed a
continuing resolution that would fund every part of government except
Obamacare. Only the Democrat-controlled Senate will never pass it and the
president has said he’d veto it if they did.
The vote Friday was every bit as symbolic as anything
else proposed by those hoping to repeal or postpone this mess, though it was
nice to see Republican Leadership in the House “grow a pair” for once. But it’s
temporary.
This battle should have been fought from the beginning,
and continuously. It wasn’t.
From the beginning, Republican leadership in the House
has been playing checkers while Democrats and the White House have been playing
chess. If they’d been smart (and principled, which has been the biggest
problem) they would have gone the other route.
Once the president started to delay, change and ignore
parts of his own law, Republicans should have gone straight to court to force
Democrats to implement the law as written or repeal it. They wanted it, they
wrote it and they passed it – they should be made to live with it.
They can’t live with it, of course, because it’s a
horribly written law that was designed to fail. Only it wasn’t designed to fail
early, it was designed to fail eventually.
Obamacare was always a step on the road to a full
single-payer health system. A step that, by design, was meant to get people
used to the concept of the government providing health insurance, but
administered by the private sector. After a few years it would fail because of
the small box in which those private companies were forced to exist is
suffocating. When the system became unsustainable, progressives would step in
with “Well, we tried the private sector and it didn’t work. Now the government
has to take over.” That wouldn’t be true, of course, but when has that ever
stopped them?
But the law was such a bad piece of legislation from
conception to execution that the wheels have begun to fall off before it even
starts. This presents a problem for Democrats because the private sector can’t
be blamed if the problems exist before the private sector has any part in it.
So you get these Band-Aids, these splints on a broken leg in desperation to get
what parts they can over the finish line in the hope the ultimate failure can
be directed where they need it to be.
Had Republicans demanded the law be followed as written,
that inevitable collapse could not have been blamed on the private sector. But
that would have required strategic thinking, which the other side does but we
do not.
That’s why I suggest we hold liberals to their own
standards, in all cases and in all things.
When Rush Limbaugh made his Sandra Fluke joke the left
mobilized and to this day remain in combat mode. They harass him and his
sponsors constantly. Rush apologized, but that wasn’t good enough. When
Republican candidates no one had ever heard of made stupid comments about rape,
every Republican was made to answer for them. Democrats had three prominent
perverts in the news in San Diego and New York in the last month, people who
did abhorrent things – not just say them – and it took weeks for any Democrat to
be asked to simply distance themselves from them.
Even on a smaller scale, the left attacks anyone on the
right for any perceived slight. Media Matters, the progressive lie factory that
programs MSNBC, trolls blogs and unleashes its Soros-paid flying monkeys on
anyone who commits the only sin that exists to a progressive – disagreeing with
them.
Progressives will attack and taunt people after they
leave the public stage, even after they die (just Google Andrew Breitbart).
They have no concern for decency they will dance on the grave of any “sinner”
every chance they get.
We should return the favor.
Have you heard of Allan Brauer? He’s a man who is among
about a half-dozen trolls who’ve completed the trifecta of disgusting that will
get me to block someone on Twitter. That trifecta, any one of which will get me
to block someone, consists of racism, sexism and homophobia.
Brauer, a gay progressive whose only goal online seems to
be to get people to respond in-kind, routinely spews bile and makes threats and
disgusting comments of all sorts because he thinks he’s better, more
enlightened than those who disagree with him. He engages in what’s common among
many, mostly anonymous Twitter trolls who have more holes in his belt than IQ
points – taking their anger out on the world 140 characters at a time. Only
Allan isn’t anonymous and seems to be of normal intelligence, which makes
simply being a jackass the best option to explain his actions.
He also was, at least until Friday when he resigned, the
communications chair for the Democratic Party of Sacramento, Calif. That is
until he couldn’t control himself and had to respond to Sen. Ted Cruz’s senior
communications adviser Amanda Carpenter (formerly of Townhall) with a tweet
reading, “May your children all die from debilitating, painful and incurable
diseases.”
This was just the first of a string of tweets attacking
any and everyone who sinned against the thought police. (I won’t link to them
individually because I don’t want to give him the attention that seems to
arouse him, but here’s a good summary.) He eventually apologized, but given his
history it’s doubtful anything will change.
I write this because were conservatives to treat Allan
Brauer the way progressives treat their political opponents, every time he
engaged in any political discourse this (and his other comments) would be
trotted out like a scarlet letter to discredit him. Moreover, the media would
demand to know how a man with a history of such violent comments could be
placed in a position of authority in a major political party. But they won’t.
He works for a company called “Writing It For You,” that
posted and deleted a defense of Brauer’s right to spew the bile he did under
the title “Dealing With Irrational People.” (Guess who the irrational people
were? HINT: Not Allan.)
“Writing It For You” does exactly what it sounds like –
writes (papers, articles, anything, for people who can’t get their words out of
their heads. They seem to share Allan’s politics, if not his tactics. Were
conservatives playing by the rules progressives operate under, they’d write
thousands of pieces on this so they’d show up in the searches Brauer’s
prospective clients perform on his work. And they’d write them continually, the
way the left attacked Andrew Breitbart on the day he died and still attacks him
today.
But we probably won’t.
Allan Brauer is small potatoes, a wannabe who lost his
position because he couldn’t control his hate for people who disagree with him
and wished death on children. He’s not unique, he’s just public. And it was
public when the Democrats of Sacramento brought him on board, it just wasn’t
widely known because who cares about some communications chair in some random
city?
Progressives would have.
I’d bet you dollars to donuts that progressives do
background searches on anyone associated with a group opposing their beliefs.
I’d also guess the Democrat Party of Sacramento knew what Allan was like (it’s
certainly not hidden, he’s put it out there for the world to see), but they
didn’t care. In fact, they agreed. But he finally crossed the line in a way
that got unwanted attention and had to go. The sentiment most likely remains.
I’d like to see conservatives play the game progressives
play, the game Allan engages in. One where when someone searches for him long
after he passes, stories of his vile, hateful public tweets are first results
returned. May the words he sent out into the world be a scarlet letter that
follows him the rest of his days. And the same goes for every progressive
hypocrite who routinely makes racist, sexist, homophobic, hate-filled remarks,
or cheats on their spouse, engages in corruption or refuses to live up to the
standards they impose on others.
Distasteful as is seems, this is the world progressives
have created in politics today. The high-road has a nice view and a strategic
advantage in a traditional battle, but we’re in a guerilla war. Conservatives
have to decide if we want to win or have the satisfaction of righteousness
while liberty is stripped away.
What does this guy have to do with Obamacare? Well, like
the tagline for the great HBO series The Wire said, “It’s all connected.”
Holding progressives to their own standards, their own rules, is the best way
to win. Be it some lone hatemonger in California or a whole party and the law
they bribed through Congress, maybe we should hang their actions over them like
a cloud every single day so there is no doubt who they are and what they want.
These are their rules, not mine.
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