Yes we will ... no we won't. Will what? Won't what? Will have a "public option" for health insurance, that's what.

It's rather fun watching a rattlesnake turn on itself .. but you have to remember it is still venomous and it can still bit you. For right now, though, the looters are arguing among themselves over whether or not we're going to have the so-called "public option" in their grand health insurance scheme. Why is it so important to the looters? Because they understand, even while many Americans don't, that the surest way to destroy the private market for health insurance in this country is for the government to offer its own plan in "competition." There is no way for a private-sector plan to compete with a government plan that can operate forever at a loss. Democrats know this, and they know that the public option is their quickest path to full and complete nationalized medicine.

Howard Dean is leading the charge of liberal Democrats ... sometimes they refer to themselves as "progressive" ... to fight for government healthcare. He seems to be among those Democrats that believe healthcare protestors are "terrorists" or "Nazis" or whatever the characterization is of the day. But now we have Howard Dean on the Stephanie Miller Show making the following statement:

The Republicans, they have no interest in this Bill. They're using the 1994 playbook. Let's kill the bill and kill the president...... or, kill the president's term. Although there are sort of angry people out there I get very nervous about this stuff. I don't like it at all.

So ... slip of the tongue or does Howard Dean truly believe that some of the protestors want to "kill the president"? Well .. looking back on Howard Dean, you really can't give him a clean bill of health here. After all, we have liberal talk show hosts like Ed Schultz saying that conservatives want to kill Barack Obama ... so maybe its something they serve at their cell meetings. At any rate ... let's hope the Democrats keep Howard Dean in charge. He's a rip.

Slobbering Barney Frank held a town hall in his district. If you could manage to understand him, you would have learned a startling new fact: "we would have had enough money to pay for healthcare reform if we hadn't gone to Iraq." Yes, according to Congressman Barney Frank, one of the ways that he wants to pay for healthcare reform is by decreasing military spending which he currently characterizes as "excessive." Other ways that he wants to pay for healthcare are by increasing taxes on the evil rich and cracking down on overseas tax evasion. He also alluded to the idea that the small business cut off is too high - set at $500,000. Also if I'm not mistaken, Barney Frank also wants subsidies for people who can't afford healthcare. Yet another government handout.

Well have more from Slobbering Barney - plus some soundclips - on the show today.

We are going to take a little trip to the Democrat Underground. Now if you ever wanted to really view the seamy underside of the leftist political mind, Democraticunderground.com is the place. Leave all logical thought, adherence to facts and rationality behind .. you are about to take a trip so far below the surface of intellect that the brightest of lights can barely illuminate something three inches in front of your face.

The mindless depravity of Democraticunderground is so intense that I gave up visiting years ago. I just didn't want to believe that I lived in a society that could possibly produce these thought processes. So, if a listener had not pointed me to this post., I never would have seen it. But I did .. and I don't want to have to suffer this alone. I believe that just reading the wealth-envy ravings of this moonbat have destroyed several million of my brain cells .. so, to share the pain, I'm going to share it with you.

Ladies and gentlemen .. may I present the dark workings of the liberal mind:

I'm honestly trying to figure it out.

Is it envy? I don't have any particular desire to be rich myself, especially if it means attaining such wealth the way so many other people have.

Is it jealousy? I don't particularly like the fact that there are so few rich people when there are so many more poor people who don't have what they have, but I don't really resent them for that reason alone.

What is it then? Could it just be the fact that to become rich it means stepping on so many other people below you in order to get ahead? In effect, EXPLOITING people in order to attain for oneself a vastness of resources that you in effect deny everyone else? Even this wouldn't be so bad if the rich didn't bitch about the fact that a portion (or even half) of their ill-gotten wealth gets taxed back by the PEOPLE that the government is supposed to represent!

I mean, you watch reality shows like "How'd You Get So Rich?" with Joan Rivers on the TVLAND channel, and listen to the "rags-to-riches" success stories. Doesn't it ever strike you how in all of those cases its either: a) getting people underneath them to make money off of their labors; OR b) charging exorbitant prices for their products which in effect distributes wealth from everyday people into their greedy little hands?

Do I think we should do away with all rich people? No, for you can never mandate total economic equality without a government gaining too much control over its populace. But do I have a problem with "redistribution of wealth" where the rich are taxed slightly higher than everyone else to pay for their unfair burden of resources that they hog to themselves? NO! After all, it's often THEY who benefit the most from government protections of all their wealth in the form of the police and courts, and from wars and other machinations of the State. They ought to pay their disproportionately fair share!

Am I really wrong to think this way?

Well ... Yes. You are wrong to think this way. Almost all of the premises you set forth in your jealous screed are wrong. You sense this, but you don't quite understand why. So, I'm here to help. Read on.

You probably think you're highly educated. My guess is that you've been through many years of school, but you weren't all that good at learning. No ...wait! Don't quit now. This is really going to help you. Just keep reading:

You really do think you're an educated person, and you believe that very few people out there will work as hard as you will to make it in our economy. You have a job, you do the work assigned to you, and you believe you do it well. I agree. You probably do. You also pay your taxes, obey the law, keep your lawn mowed and give to charity - though by your way of thinking you are "giving back." And THERE, my friend, is your problem. You don't really recognize that wealth is earned .. you think that it is handed out by some great unseen and ultimately unfair force.

Look at you! Here you are ... you've done what you were supposed to do. You went to school. You got a job. You worked hard. You are a good citizen. You're involved. You care about those who have less than you ... and despise those who have more. Why? Because you just can't figure out why they have all this stuff, and you don't. You're a good person, and you've played by the rules ... yet you're not rich. So, in your mind this means that those people who ARE wealthy aren't really good people and they didn't play by the rules. That just has to be the explanation for why they're rich, and you're not.

If you really knew these people, you might feel different. If you knew the risks they take, the hours they work, and the imagination they bring to the table you might recognize that their wealth was earned, not seized. If you watched them create jobs in their community while working 80 hours a week and risking all that they have to build a business you might re-think your line about "exploiting" people. If you saw them competing with other similar businesses in the marketplace - keeping their prices low enough to attract buyers, yet high enough to stay in business and eke out a profit, you might have other thoughts about "charging exorbitant prices."

Here's the bottom line. You just cannot accept the idea that those with more than you obtained their wealth through hard work, risk-taking and good decision making. I mean, after all ... if that was all it took then YOU would be rich, right? You work hard; you're not afraid of risks; and you make good decisions, yet you're not rich. NO! That just can't be the explanation. You're good, so they have to be bad. To believe anything else is to recognize your own shortcomings.

Hope that helped.

A group of leftists and centre-leftists have come together in ecumenical communion to call for the establishment of a High Pay Commission. The 100 signatories to the request include Lib Dems, Labourites, Greens and lecturers in media studies, and their most famous champion (in these days when the General Secretary of the TUC is no longer a household name) is the Lib Dem Shadow Chancellor, Vincent Cable. The argument of the 100 signatories is that, just as in 1997 there was a case for the Low Pay Commission to tackle the problem of low pay, so today we need a commission to tackle the problem of high pay.

So .. there you have looters in Great Britain talking about putting the government in charge of deciding who can make what in the private marketplace. Does this sound a bit like any other country you know? I mean, other than China.

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