Well, it’s a day later, and while panic is not always unfounded, in this case it most assuredly was. Why?  Because there simply is no chance that the Obama/Pelosi/Reid Axis can “sneak” anything past us.  Not even in the Baucus……

“History.”

“Sorry, wrong number.”

*click*

I hate it when history calls. And it is always… ALWAYS… collect.

With just the bow flooded, the Titanic would have ridden bow down, but would not have sunk.

Not saying that this has any bearing on our current problems, but it is an interesting irony.

MarkTheGreat on October 14, 2009 at 4:59 PM

Sure it does. It is summed up in the adage that when you’ve dug yourself in a hole, the first step is to stop digging. Under this corrupt administration and out-of-control Congress, we have not only to continued to dig but we’ve replaced the ordinary hand shovel with earth moving equipment.

If the Titanic hadn’t tried to dodge the iceberg, it wouldn’t have sunk.

If they had crashed into the berg headlong, they would have destroyed the bow, and quite possibly made the ship unsalvageable, but the only section that would have flooded would have been the bow.

Attempting to dodge the iceberg, resulted in a scrape that allowed water into the first 5 water tight compartments. This was enough water to pull the bow down far enough, that water was able to slosh over to top of the water tight barriers into successive compartments, dooming the ship.

With just the bow flooded, the Titanic would have ridden bow down, but would not have sunk.

Not saying that this has any bearing on our current problems, but it is an interesting irony.

max1 on October 14, 2009 at 3:33 PM

Sorry about the strike through!

Susanboo on October 14, 2009 at 3:35 PM

In their place you ask? Well, a bright, but not nearly as qualified medical practicioner who is skilled, but not a physician will serve as a physician extender. Someone who can diagnose, prescribe limited medications and who serves under a physician–but does not nearly have the equivalent training. The cost? Nearly impossible to see at the outset, but the gradual degradation of quality, speed, professionalism and a dulling of the cutting edge of the medical profession. Gone will be the incentives to become a pediatric eye surgeon, a neonatal care physician, a tumor specialist. The general practicioner will now become increasingly more encumbered with the management of acute and chronic diseases that he/she could previously refer to a specialist. Providers will be spread an inch deep and a mile wide.

Who will profit? Complementary medicine specialists and innovative providers in very short supply will deliver miracles here and there.

Who will suffer? The old, the sick, the young will increasingly languish where they previously thrived. They’ll continue to march on in silence, just as they have for centuries–they’ll be politicized, victimized or cast off just as others have been before. Gone will be the incentives to work harder in medicine—because, when it all pays the same, why work harder….?

History is calling alright, SEN Snowe…. For those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.

This is what spreading the wealth around looks like.

gwelf on October 14, 2009 at 2:15 PM

I nominate this comment as the theme for the GOP in 2010, 2012, 2014, etc….

And, as comment of the month.

The headline in Investor’s Business Daily, Sept. 16, 2009: “45% of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul……

The problem with four of nine U.S. doctors saying they “would consider leaving their practice or taking an early retirement” is that “the number of doctors is already lagging population growth,” reports IBD…….

Add millions of new patients to a shrinking supply of doctors and the obvious result is an English-style queue, longer waits in pain, and a centrally directed rationing of service.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33937

My question is: Is this the “Law of Unintended Consequences”…. Or did they expect it from the beginning and make it “not a bug, but a feature”?

We’ve got to take this country back one Commie sympathizer at a time.

History calls.

A shame History didn’t get a “I’m sorry, that number is no longer in service” message…

I told her that she was wrong. she was miffed.

these Senators want to destroy us.

LOL! :)

- They want everybody covered, but their plan leaves 25million of the current 30million uncovered and manages to raise the cost of everybody who’s already covered. WTF?

- Have of them say public option and half say no public option.

- We have 10% unemployment and they intend to raise taxes next year

Are these idiots mad? When, in God’s name, are the Washington elites going to stop this circle jerk? When are the sheeple of this country going to stop re-electing them?

twit.

Susanboo on October 14, 2009 at 3:31 PM

fixed it for ya!

And what does it say about the intellectual honesty (or capacity, for that matter) of someone who *does* support it?

Midas on October 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM

After hearing that idiot woman in Detroit that was interviewed while standing in line for stimulus money, is it any wonder that the Dems are getting away with pushing this crap down our throats?
Many of these voters don’t even know that the money being handed out to them came from the taxpayers. They think there is a pot at the end of the rainbow, and little green leprechauns are giving out the gold to Obama and he is passing it on to them!
I guess they believe leprechauns are funding the health care also. Amazing and sad how ignorant much of our electorate is.

highhopes on October 14, 2009 at 2:43 PM
dhunter on October 14, 2009 at 2:40 PM

What makes you think they’ll be SEIU. Somehow I don’t think they will see this as a service but more like industry and will be under the UAW. In which case you still wont want to be there the day before a holiday.

depressing wages directly or indirectly as a result,

You conservatives know nothing….this is why health care is needed, because fewer people will be able to afford it.

What if you have 2 incomes, have no kids and take zero deductions and your household income is more than the number quoted for this mythical family?

Then you’re double screwed.

Time to buy more ammo and send Sarah a donation!
Politicians:
Don’t mess with news organizations that buy ink by the barrel, or
citizens that buy ammo by the case!
dhunter on October 14, 2009 at 2:51 PM

Good luck trying to buy ammo by the case these days.

From what I hear, the supply is just starting to come back, and now bloomy’s mentally ill criminals are prowling around gunshows, trying to expose a non-existent loophole and CA wants to register ammo.

That will just reconfirm that the Statists can’t abide an armed citizenry.