Pig-in-a-poke is an idiom that refers to a confidence trick originating in the Late Middle Ages, when meat was scarce but apparently rats and cats were not.
The scheme entailed the sale of a "suckling pig" in a "poke" (bag). The wriggling bag would actually contain a cat — not particularly prized as a source of meat — that was sold to the victim in an unopened bag....
A common colloquial expression in the English language, to "buy a pig in a poke," is to make a risky purchase without inspecting the item beforehand. The phrase can also be applied to accepting an idea or plan without a full understanding of its basis....
Sound like the socialized medicine bill?
Has anyone else noticed, too, the latest buzzword from the radical left is "misinformation"? As in, "If you don't like our plans for wrecking the health care industry in the USA, you're the victim of misinformation."
Glenn Beck among others has broadcast "misinformation" about how Acorn operates, even though the evidence is documented on tape and is so straightforward it doesn't leave a lot of room for "misinformation" or even for "misinterpretation."
And, adding insult to injury, to liberals, apparently the opposite of "misinformation" isn't "information," but it's no information at all.
Like, the Comrade offers a litany of magical health care benefits that are in "his" socialized medicine bill -- and yet he has no bill, or the very least, refuses to specify exactly which bill he's referring to.
Baucus actually invites hundreds of amendments to his health care bill in the Senate, and once again, there is no bill, only a 250-page "conceptualization" of heaven-only-knows-what.
I think all this stuff is dead in the water, anyway. Apparently the Comrade has moved into the realm of foreign affairs to save face from the deadlock over socialized medicine. But this is even scarier.
So the Comrade reveals long-known evidence of a secret new facility in Iran for producing material for atomic weapons, then joins hands with England and France in a show of solidarity against it. And then what?
Apparently Abracadabrajab toned down his rhetoric. The AP reported him as civil and polite in one interview.
And then the next day, Iran launched a bunch of medium-range missiles in a test. A bit less civil and polite?
The Comrade now has to walk in George Bush's shoes for a while. When the USA was attacked on 9/11, the nation had the support and sympathy of all of our allies and most civilized nations. Then Bush tried to actually do something about terrorism, and all he got was "Gee, sounds like fun, but we already made other plans."
We'll see if the world will do any better for the Comrade, since he's gone so far out of his way to assure them the USA is sorry for going off on its own to defend itself. Of course, the other option is to sit and do nothing -- with the rest of the world -- while Iran and other loony-bin countries continue to develop atomic weapons.
You know what? I don't care if my neighbors like me, as long as I'm sure that they can't destroy me. I mean, can anyone really trust Iran, Libya, or even Russia, based on past experience? France usually flees from a military challenge. England is still recovering from its participation in Iraq. And the Comrade seems to be working very hard to alienate Eastern Europe.
And of course, Iran is not as big an immediate threat to the USA as it is to Israel. I would have liked to see Netanyahu on that podium with France, England, and the USA. Did anyone invited him? Does this warm and fuzzy new partnership include Israel? I mean, after all, wasn't France selling stuff to Saddam Hussein when the rest of the world had agreed to sanctions? Like, how committed is France to protecting Israel?
The USA may have to go it alone again -- if the USA continues to stand with Israel.... but deep in my heart, I think the Comrade would gladly throw Israel -- the USA for that matter -- under a bus before he'd risk making himself personally unpopular.
And does anyone else find it rather bizarre that the Comrade doesn't seem to give a damn if American citizens like him or not?
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