Potent Quotables (updated periodically)

  • "If you like sausages and laws, you should never watch either one of them being made." -- Otto von Bismarck
  • "God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson
  • "The best way to prove a stick is crooked is to lay a straight one beside it" -- FW Boreham
  • "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'" -- Abigail Van Buren
  • "It was not political rhetoric, mass rallies or poses of moral indignation that gave the people a better life. It was capitalism." -- Thomas Sowell

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Unpacking ObamaCare

Keith Hennessey, a Bush 43 economist, has a great blog post on ObamaCare, mostly without political spin or overheated rhetoric (says the guy who has had a couple of overheated-rhetoric posts on this very topic). Hennessey takes the letter Obama sent out to Kennedy and Baucus, unpacks what Obama actually says, compares it to Obama's (and other Democrats) past proposals on health care, and summarizes the meaning very well. Worth your read, partly as a way to see Obama's triangulation on health care, and partly to get an idea of what might be coming later this year.

Here's Obama in his own words:
Health care reform must not add to our deficits over the next 10 years — it must be at least deficit neutral and put America on a path to reducing its deficit over time.
I have yet to hear a compelling any coherent reason why health care "reform" would lead to lower budget deficits. Come on. Anyone? Give me your best shot.
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