Where would we be without giant inflatable alligators in Cleburne, TX?
“As more and more celebrities become experts on health care…”
I obviously want to make sure to keep trumpeting the gigantic sucking sound that Obamacare is. Make no mistake, it sucks.
The real point is to take a step back for just a second and recognize that a large portion of our society looks to (or at least tolerates) the likes of , Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and Whoopi Goldberg peddling their out of touch perspectives as credible sources… not on lighting, line delivery, or make up application… but on the environment, health care, civics, and most recently, statues of limitations on child rape cases for “creative geniuses” (as if that somehow qualifies or justifies repeatedly sodomizing a protesting 13 year old girl who’s been nursing your Quaalude/champagne cocktail). Sean Penn (not to mention The Nation) presuming that his fawning interview of The Castro Brothers has any significance what so ever, or is useful for anything other than lining cyber bird cages.
A vast majority of celebrities aren’t authorities or experts on the environment, the economy, or human rights. Most of them are experts in entertaining, film creation, or line delivery.
Most politicians aren’t experts on the environment, the economy, or human rights either. Most aren’t experts in health care either. Most are experts in the law, a few are experts in building and growing a business, and even fewer are doctors who ARE experts in health care.
The point? Nancy Pelosi is a career politician, an expert in making people like her.
Harry Reid was a lawyer before he was a politician, an expert in finding loopholes and making people like him.
Barack Obama was a lawyer and community organizer before he was a one term state senator, 1/2 term U.S. Senator, and President of the U.S., an expert in community agitation, campaigning, giving speeches, and making people like him (It’s also rumored that he’s incredibly smart, although I’m still waiting to see practical evidence of that).
Politicians aren’t experts on the things that they decide and impose on the rest of us. That’s why limited government makes more sense than an ever expanding government… the more the government gets involved in, the more likely it is that people who are not experts will make decisions that impact the lives and livelihoods of those who do. 45% of doctors said they would consider quitting if current health care legislation is enacted (72% of them doubt that government can cover 47 million more people with the same care for less money). But why trust the doctors when you can trust Democratic Senator from Montana Max Baucus (who was a lawyer before he was a politician – that’s the loophole/making people like him career track).
I don’t think politicians are inherently evil or foster some mal-intent toward America. Their besetting sin isn’t a black heart, even in the case of Pelosi, Waxman, etc. The besetting sin of big-government career politicians is pride and hubris. They believe that they can and should decide for all of us, and every time we elect them, we foster that pride and cement it.
So look forward to 2010 and vote out an incumbent!
