Rope-a-Dope

From the American Thinker

Nearly all of the various programs summarized below will involve additional federal dollars poured into the vast and dynamic education industry, the Democratic Party's most powerful interest group. When you see the word "encourage" in the same phrase as "federal" or "policy", grab your pocketbook, because they want to spend your tax money.

Not just school boards, but consultants, testing companies, publishers, schools of education and a vast universe of other service-providers stand ready to reap more billions. Every time you "address" a problem you have to have studies, conferences, boards, consultants, facilitators, meeting planners, and on and on. That's just to get started, before anything is actually decided, much less created. Education is big business. Plenty of well-paying jobs, in and outside the schools. It will surprise no one that Obama is looking for "new and innovative ways to increase teacher pay".

From the The Boston Globe

"Oh, he's liberal, he's liberal," Obama said, mimicking his critics. "Let me tell you something. There's nothing liberal about wanting to reduce money in politics. That is common sense. There's nothing liberal about wanting to make sure [our soldiers] are treated properly when they come home . . . . There's nothing liberal about wanting to make sure that everybody has healthcare. We are spending more on healthcare in this country than any other advanced country, but we've got more uninsured. There's nothing liberal about saying that doesn't make sense, and we should so something smarter with our healthcare system."

Obama has invented a phrase for actions that smack of politics-as-usual: okey-doke. Of the liberal charge, Obama thundered: "Don't let them run that 'okey doke' on you."

Okey doke. We won't let them run it on us, but then we're not liberal. However, you, Senator Obama are a text book definition of a liberal.

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Department of Pet Peeves:

One of my many pet peeves is the left's deliberate attempt to equate healthcare with healthcare insurance. Needy uninsured people already have free, to them, health care courtesy of the tax payers.

Those who aren't among the needy who choose not to purchase medical insurance shouldn't expect the rest of us to kick in for their healthcare or their healthcare insurance.