"Vogon Care" and Saturday Night Lies

I'm tired of "Obamacare", "Pelosicare", and "Reidcare". Lame. Let's get creative! How about "Shadow care"? "We Really Don't Care about You care"? "Enjoy Your Time in Prison care"?

My personal favorite is "Vogon care". Vogons, of course, are the galactic bureaucrats from Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. According to the Guide, "Vogons are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous."

Sounds like the people trying to ram socialism -- err -- healthcare reform down our throats. I'll take it! "Vogon care" it is! Vogons, like Pelosi, Reid, Obama, etc., are also in favor of death panels, because they won't even save their grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without all of the necessary (and unnecessary) paperwork.

Similarly, don't let your Congressmen or Congresswomen read you poetry -- it will be as malicious, incomprehensible, tortuous and nauseating as their 2,074-page healthcare bill.

Speaking of which...

Senate Democrats have cleared the way for a Saturday night vote to begin the healthcare debate, a Democratic aide said.

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has agreed to relent on his demand for Senate clerks to read aloud the 2,074-page bill and allow the chamber to take a critical test vote, said the aide. Reading the bill on the Senate floor was estimated to take as many as 30 hours or longer, raising the possibility of the Senate staying in session into next week.

Heaven forbid United States senators put in any overtime in debating the most dastardly piece of legislation ever assembled in the Senate. Thirty hours for 2,074 pages comes out to almost 70 minutes of debate a page. Instead, there will be no reading of the bill, and the Senate will take a vote at 8 pm Saturday night to end debate on a motion to move forward with the bill.

Not only haven't these senators read the bill, but these Saturday night vote fests are getting more than just a little worrisome. The House passed this bill on a Saturday night, and now the Senate is trying to end debate on a Saturday night. I might be mistaken, but constituents can't call their senators' office at 8 pm on a Saturday night, now can they? So glad our elected officials are looking out for our best interest.

Hey, waddya know? Another similarity they have with Vogons.

Jumping to All the Wrong Conclusions

I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but between President Obama's no-show at the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, and his "let's not jump to conclusions" apology in the wake of the Ft. Hood terrorist attack, it's hard not to have any misgivings about Obama's priorities and his increasingly multicultural, morally-relativistic geopolitical worldview.

(On a side note, I just set a personal record for longest opening sentence in a blog!)

Toby Harnden's piece in the UK Telegraph nails Obama's decision not to go to Berlin on the head: "Perhaps Obama felt that celebrating the role of the United States in bringing down the wall would be a bit triumphalist and not quite in keeping with his wish to present America as a declining world power anxious to apologise for sundry historic misdeeds."

Zing!

If it's not about Obama, he won't be there. Harnden notes that Obama was able to find time to go to Berlin while he was campaigning for President, but now? Too busy. But pencil him in for accepting his Nobel peace price in December!

Regarding the PC storm surrounding the Ft. Hood massacre, Ralph Peters writes in the New York Post that in order to "call this an act of Terrorism, the White House would need an autographed photo of Osama bin Laden helping Hasan buy weapons in downtown Killeen, Texas. Even that might not suffice."

Obama's reaction to the Ft. Hood attack pales in its moral decisiveness and outrage when compared to his remarks about the killing of abortionist George Tiller. Did the President "caution against jumping to conclusions"? Did he (and Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano) warn about backlash against pro-lifers? As Al would say, I don't think so, Tim.

So what we have here is a President of the United States who willingly chooses not to celebrate one of the greatest moments of freedom in the history of mankind (and that was brought about directly by U.S. foreign policy and moral resolve), and who lacks the stones to call a terrorist a terrorist because it might offend a certain people group.

Personally, I find it offensive when a U.S. Army major kills 13 of his fellow service members while shouting "Allahu Akhbar!"

But I don't want to jump to any conclusions.