Today, the Senate voted down the Blunt Amendment. This measure, if it would have become law, would have permitted any employer to opt out of any of the Obama healthcare mandates, if the employer claimed that it violated his or her religious beliefs. Obviously, this was intended to keep the issue of religious freedom uppermost in the mind of Republican base voters, social conservatives. Democrats were only too glad to play along with this charade, assuming that they could get more women’s votes. Why was it purely symbolic? Well, no matter what these silly geese did on this vote, I’d guess that Obama might veto the highway bill to which it is attached, calling their bluff.
And these clowns in Congress wonder why their approval rating hovers around 10%. Many of them are scurrying around all over cable news programs like little rats, at the behest of a tiny socialist nation, urging us to fight another decade-long war, this time with Iran. There’s certainly a lot of support in the nation for this action, assuming the nation consists of Manhattan and K Street. Everyone knows that the nation’s deficit is a scandal, but nobody has the courage to actually cut any benefits, or raise taxes. Unemployment is down (down!) to around 8.3%, so why should we care about that? Our schools are a national disgrace, but luckily when the population can’t read or write, it’ll spend their free time voting on American Idol. Should our senators and representatives do anything about these issues or scores more that I could mention. Heck no, let’s everyone in Congress just give fiery speeches so the loons on both sides know who’s their daddy (or mommy).
The weirdest part of this silliness today is that it will probably cost the GOP any chance it had to win the Senate. Olympia Snowe has made a lot of votes in alignment with the party in recent years. She knew that she would have to also vote for this, or her primary challenger would beat her up, so she chose to resign instead, and voted against the amendment. Now, there are 2 weeks until candidates can get enough signatures to run in the primary. The only Republican likely to succeed is the guy who was going to try to defeat her, Scott D’Amboise . You want to know how likely he is to win in November? Think Christine O’Donnell without the charm.
Both parties do this nonsense. The last time the Republicans chose to cloak themselves with symbolism on this scale was in 2005, with the notorious Terri Schiavo case. That worked out pretty well, I guess. So why not do it again?
It’s like these guys are trying to re-enact the movie Animal House. As Otter said, at the conclusion of one of the greatest scenes in film history, “I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!” bluto responds, ‘We’re just the guys to do it.” Well, if we want a futile and stupid gesture in modern-day America, Capital Hill are just the guys to do it.
Here is the clip from the movie. It might take your mind off of the herd of Blutarskis who we’ve placed in Congress. Caution: if you are a child who has never heard vulgarity, it is probably best not to click on the link, or ever to watch Animal House.
March 2nd, 2012 at 3:14 am
Yeah, that is all we can expect from any rational person now is a futile gesture. Bad enough we’ve had to put up with RINOs like Snowe and Collins for years and years.
Far be it for Congress to allow the American people the option to exercise their own morality and give themselves a waiver from Obama Care. Only King Obama may do so to his friends.
I may be wrong but I think it was Freddy Bastiat who said that government should not have any powers that the citizens themselves do not have.
March 2nd, 2012 at 6:16 am
If I have a job I do what my employer tells me to do, or I go get different job. You cannot cherry pick what you want to do, and what you don’t want to do. You do your job, whether you like it, or not. It does not matter what you think, or what you feel. So long as you are not being ordered to do something criminal, it is your job, and you are being paid for doing it. So you do your job, and shut up about it. If you don’t like it, either change careers, or start your own company.
For Congress to try to pass some law that says otherwise is just nuts.
March 2nd, 2012 at 7:21 am
Could someone, anyone, please explain to me how exactly an ammendment about birth control gets tacked onto a HIGHWAY bill??? WTF???
March 2nd, 2012 at 7:27 am
TA, you can thank Harry Reid since he controls what legislation gets voted on in the Senate.
What a guy!
March 2nd, 2012 at 7:31 am
Klo, what sort of job do you do? It sounds like you were born and stamped with your future profession tattooed on your forehead. Now you sit at your desk or whatever chained like a slave.
If you don’t like your job, or benefits, then go get another one! Or are you waiting for Green Job Czar Van Jones to rescue you? Too late for that one, he’s long gone!