Oh, dem lies

Been incommunicado for a couple of days. My only media tie to the outside world was the radio, and that was bad enough.

You've really got to give the democrats credit for having the audacity to conduct what Hitler called "The Big Lie." Take Illinois for example.

First we had Dick(head) Durbin crowing about how the Republicans wouldn't dare try to "take away" an entitlement like socialized medicine. Yeah, Dick, you sure about that? The run-up to implementing that bill is four years of nothin' but increasing taxes and reduced benefits for the over-65 crowd.

Forget the liberal political theology behind the bill -- which is quite objectionable on its own merits. Think about costs, Dick(head). We will.

So big corporations like Caterpillar, AT&T and several others have announced -- as the law compels them to -- that they will be paying hundreds of millions of dollars for socialized medicine. Idiot Waxman, from California, land of fruits and nuts, wants to hold a congressional hearing, rummage barefoot through the corporate account books, etc. etc. Apparently Waxman is so stupid he actually believes all the Comrade's hype about how much money socialized medicine is going to save. He just can't figure out why on earth corporations would have to spend more for their employees and retiree benefits under a socialized medicine scheme. I mean, isn't it supposed to be free? 

And getting back to Illinois, Dick(head) Durbin's home state.... The guy who was supposed to run for the office of Lieutenant Governor was revealed to be a wife-beater or child-molestor or something. Anyway, he backed out of the race. So they held a mini-primary to find a replacement.

This guy named Al Turner won that little primary. I don't know much about him. He's from Chicago and he's black. I believe he's been in politics for a little while, though I'd never heard of him before.

But guess what? The dems decided that they didn't want to run Turner, they wanted somebody from Downstate. So they nominated Paul Simon's daughter instead. She's a law professor somewhere Downstate, and is in a band. That's all I know about her. 

Her dad, Paul Simon, was US Senator for several terms, known for wearing dowdy bowties. A super-liberal, I totally disagreed with him, but respected him because I thought he was honest and sincere. Well -- long story short -- he wasn't. Don't remember the issue, but saw him at a political event telling one story, then a couple days later on TV saying just about the opposite thing.

After that, I pretty much concluded that Lord Acton was right:  Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Paul Simon had only the power of a senator, but it didn't seem to do him much good in terms of integrity.

And The Big Lie? The Big Lie is the cost-savings and other general benefits we're all supposed to get from socialized medicine. You know, people come here from all over the world for quality health care. I don't know why exactly the Comrade and his henchmen are so dead-set about giving that up.

Except that he no doubt believes he can then direct even the tiniest minutiae of every citizen's life, and we're all latent welfare lay-abouts and welcome his close attention.

Yeah. Sure. I just can't wait until the election.