‹ The duty of lawyers and the consequences of choices •
Even if it hurts. Not really thigh-slappers, but a collection that one would expect to find in The Onion or Carbolic Smokeball. First, there is the Slaughter Option on voting for Obama/Reid/PelosiCare. Even the name is a hoot. Should have been co-sponsored by Senator Death Panel. It is a proposal by the Chairman of the House Rules Committee, Louise Slaughter, to vote on amendments to the Senate health care bill, without voting on that bill, by just “deeming it as having been voted on.” As NRO’s Yuval Levin noted, “Democratic leaders should be asking themselves just how they have gotten to the point that their strategy is to amend a law that doesn’t exist yet by passing a bill without voting on it. Surely it’s time to start over.”
Next, we have Nancy Pelosi explaining the reason why the health care bill must be passed. So that the stupid public can finally be told what’s in it.
Perhaps there is a connection with this, from the state of Oregon. Brilliant idea. If your tenth graders can’t pass standardized tenth grade tests as well as pupils from other states (other than, probably, California), just have them take the tests as eleventh graders. Next step: Change the IQ test formula until every is above-average, like from the fictional Lake Wobegon.
Now for something less gallowsy in its humor, here’s Iowahawk presenting Obama and the Democrats on health care as Henry V at Agincourt. I see Obama more as ordering the suicidal charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava (Baracklava?).
“The facts of life are conservative.” - Margaret Thatcher
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