Dump and Run

Remember Bart Stupack? He is the dem congressman from Michigan who was one of the last holdouts to the affirmative vote for Obamacare, due to his supposed convictions against abortion funding. He remained strong right to the end. Then he caved after getting some weak promise from Obama in the form of that executive order which somehow overrides what is in the bill for government funded abortion. (We'll see how that holds up when it is finally tested!)

In going through his stoic resistance, Mr. Bart has made enemies on both sides of the fence. Now today, he announces that he will not seek re-election to his House seat. What a farce this was!

He claims today that he does this not out of fear, but simply that it's time to move on, and of course he breaks out the time-worn "....to spend more time with my family...." excuse. He says that he does not fear the far left or the far right, or the tea-baggers who have him in their sights. He says that he's confident that he could be re-elected. Uh-huh.

Mr. Bart does not represent a huge liberal base like Pelosi. He's in a traditional 50-50 district that is always a battle for either party, although as an incumbent, he's faced little opposition over the years for his seat. But there's no question in my mind that he'd be thrown out in November. Trust me, he knows that too.

I believe that what he's done here is traded his vote to Obama for some future post that will in effect, be a promotion for him. It is likely that he was getting a bit tired of the grind in Congress anyway, and he likes the idea of something different.

So watch for his name in the not too distant future. Obama has promised him something. Nice sell-out Bart. I know it's politics as usual, but when it comes to proclaiming yourself as pro-life, you ought to have a little more conscience than that.

Good Enough For Us?

Havana (AP) - Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Thursday declared passage of American health care reform “a miracle” and a major victory for Obama’s presidency, but couldn’t help chide the United States for taking so long to enact what communist Cuba achieved decades ago.

Well heck, that's good enough for me! At this point, why would anyone still look critically upon the idea of Obama's socialized medicine? Look, Cuba did this decades ago, and isn't Cuba just about the first country you think of when you consider miracle drugs and cutting-edge health care for it's citizens?

Right.

Seriously, it would be a good exercise to start tallying up the endorsements from around the world that Obama has received in his first year for whatever achievements you think have been made. Look at for what, and from whom, they've come from. I think that it would paint a disturbing picture of what he and his politics would do to this country given enough time and authority. Fortunately, I don't think that the majority of Americans will support that, or are that apathetic, to allow it. Only time will tell for sure. Come November.....?