WSJ thoughts on the upcoming Super Majority

[Barbossa]

Though I'm not a big fan of absolute power either way (i.e. Democrat president+congress or Republican president+congress), I don't sympathize with conservatives one iota over a possible "Super Majority". The Republicans reigned supreme for 6 of the past 8 years. Personally, I relish the opportunity to at least re-balance the Supreme Court after Bush's conservative stack job.

 

[corndog]

Except for the fact that it came from the WSJ, owned by none other than Rupert Murdoch

Does that affect the substance of the article?

 

[Geoff_M]

- Medicare for all. When HillaryCare cratered in 1994, the Democrats concluded they had overreached, so they carved up the old agenda into smaller incremental steps, such as Schip for children. A strongly Democratic Congress is now likely to lay the final flagstones on the path to government-run health insurance from cradle to grave.

Interesting S-CHIP related news today. After only 7 months, Hawaii is scrapping it's universal healthcare for children program:

Hawaii ending universal child health care
By MARK NIESSE, Associated Press Writer Mark Niesse, Associated Press Writer 2 hrs 46 mins ago

HONOLULU – Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.

Gov. Linda Lingle's administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible for the subsidized plan.

If you'll recall Bush and the GOP were greatly vilified in blocking a large expansion of the federal S-CHIP program that would have greatly increased the income limits, well into "middle-class" range, to provide insurance for kids that didn't have any. One of the arguments against the change made by the GOP was one of the main reasons cited for the implosion of the Hawaii program... that parents would drop kids from their plans so the government plan would then pay to cover them instead.

 

[mom2rb]

Though I'm not a big fan of absolute power either way (i.e. Democrat president+congress or Republican president+congress), I don't sympathize with conservatives one iota over a possible "Super Majority". The Republicans reigned supreme for 6 of the past 8 years. Personally, I relish the opportunity to at least re-balance the Supreme Court after Bush's conservative stack job.

MTE

 

[Disneycrazymom]

Interesting article. I believe it is true and we as a nation will be forever changed. I do not see all the change as good change.

Tax and more tax to pay for programs. Government involvement in everything. It is one thing to have a majority but my concern is that the leadership does not represent the people. Even moderate Dems would say that Obama, Polosi, Reed etc are far left. I believe we do best when we are in the center and can work together. Even if we are not working together at least it is good to have debate and have both sides represented.

 

[Mr Man]

I stoped reading after the first paragraph. Not all Democrats are Liberals, and anyone that assumes that isn't worth reading.

True, but if you vote for Obama, your ARE voting for a liberal. In fact, I can't think of another Senator more liberal than Obama (Biden is close though).



I also don't go in for the doom and gloom from either side. I am looking forward to my vote on Nov 4th, then into the office for a full day of work and then home to watch a few hours of election returns after the kids go to sleep.....and then bed and back to work.....rinse. repeat.

I will be amazed if we end up with a Democrat Super-majority (I am seldom amazed).

 

[DawnCt1]

A few appropriate and timely quotes; All apply.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O'Rourke

The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. – Tacitus

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. – Mark Twain (1866)

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. – Robert Heinlein

A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. – Thomas Jefferson (1801)



Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. – James Bovard (1994) (And security is a well armed sheep)

# The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H.L. Mencken

# It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve. – Henry George


# The power to tax is the power to destroy. – John Marshall

# A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. – Alexander Tytler

# A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. – G. Gordon Liddy