Vote your Beliefs

The latest bribe from P.O. is giving the brother of a Congressman a judgeship (appointed Scott Matheson to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals at the same time Barack Obama hosted his brother, Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT) at the White House to convince him to switch to a yes vote on ObamaCare).


If you believe in ObamaCare vote for it (I don't) but don't fill the bill with bribes.  It seems to me that any bill that has as much pressure via bribes or strong-arming to pass might not be in the best interest of the citizens of the U.S..


On a separate subject, why are the left and the main street media (which is not main street in its views and slants) so into trying to destroy Sarah Palin.  She may not be perfect but many times she speaks as many people believe and don't hear anywhere else.


There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.  ALFRED KORZYBSKI


Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. ANDRE GIDE


The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW



"In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well."   Len Deighton


"Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason."



Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied.   Otto von Bismarck



I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell



I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.  Douglas Adams



belief (n) 1 an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists :• something one accepts as true or real; a firmly held opinion or conviction  • a religious conviction
2 ( belief in) trust, faith, or confidence in someone or something 
ORIGIN Middle English : alteration of Old English gelēafa; compare with believe

ObamaCare

If you limit the profit of an organization then there is less of an incentive to perform the business well.  P.O.'s "new" "improved" health care bill's newest trick is to limit the ability of Insurance companies to raise their rates (who doesn't want something for nothing).

The rest of the bill sounds an awful lot like the failed bills that "passed" the house and senate.  I don't understand why they are so committed to passing a very unpopular bill.  They will lose several Senate and House seats over it (I personally would be happy with that result!).

Since P.O. basically has told Reid and Pelosi to write bills with no direction from him; why is he surprised by the public outcry when the bills come from those far left legislators.

Fortunately I will still have my lovely wife and kids grandkids, even though they (kids and grandk's) will end up paying for it.

“Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.”

“If you want something said, ask a man...if you want something done, ask a woman.” Margaret Thatcher

“Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.” Henri Queuille

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.” Earnest Benn

“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.” Albert Einstein

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” Plato

POLITICS, n.A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.(DD)

Us or U.S.

The Senate health care bill must be a good bill after all only a few Senators had to be bribed : 

• Nelson of Neb (Nebraska Democrat sellout’s special Medicaid expansion subsidy will initially cost an estimated $100 million),
• Vermont and Massachusetts will get similar (though less generous) special treatment by the feds in covering Medicaid expansion costs, 
• $100 million item for construction of a university hospital was inserted in the Senate health care bill at the request of Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn ; 
• nonprofit insurance companies will be exempt from a new, nearly $7 billion tax to pay for Demcare. Democrat Sens. Ben  Nelson and Carl Levin of Michigan,; 
• increase in Medicare payments to hospitals and doctors, the NYT reports, — “where at least 50 percent of the counties are ‘frontier counties,’ defined as those having a population density less than six people per square mile. And which are the lucky states? The bill gives no clue. But the Congressional Budget Office has determined that Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming meet the criteria" ; 
• Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., scored a big victory, too, with the inclusion in the amendment package of $10 billion to expand community health centers across the country — including at least two more in Vermont; 
• “Three states – Pennsylvania, New York and Florida – all won protections for their Medicare Advantage beneficiaries at a time when the program is facing cuts nationwide.”; 
• MARY LANDRIEU AND LOUISIANA: $300 million.

The congressmen take an oath when they are sworned in : I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.


It seems to me that the congressmen are only looking out for the "us" in their own states. I think they should look out for the entire country the U.S.A.. They are trying to fix what they see as bad deals for their states which are bad deals for everyone not just them.

“He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.” William Shakespeare

“It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath” Aeschylus

“A liar freely gives his oath”

“If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever said it" Tom Lehrer

OATH, ( n) In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. D.D.