It was such a joy to watch Obama and Biden, supposedly the leaders of the strongest nation on earth, enjoy a staged, cold beer photo op with Professor Gates and Sgt. Crowley.    So while Iran and North Korea are busy formulating plans to end the world as we know it, our fearless leader nurses a lukewarm beer with a police officer, who just one week ago, was being categorized as stupid? Maybe  I missed something here, but don’t we have more pressing issues facing our society?  Perhaps it is Obama that is acting stupidly.

My guess is that this is just a Clintonesque ploy by Team Obama to take attention away from his insidious government healthcare proposals that won’t do a damn thing for you or I other than robbing us of more money which will be used to give another freebie to those who are too lazy to work for a living. 

In the meantime, Der Fuhrer Pelosi was busy on the hill demonizing insurance companies, calling them “villains”. The first thing that we all need to remember is that a villain is a person, an insurance company is a corporate entity which is a legal structure that does not have any type of personality; good or bad.  Then again, Pelosi is simply out to stoke the class warfare fires in the name of power.  What we all need to realize is that just like liberals, there are good and bad in the insurance industry.   However, liberals seem to be missing the point that the single biggest thing that can be done to stem the rising cost of insurance is to cap frivolous litigation with meaningful tort reform. 

I wonder why it is that those who liberals view as simpletons, like you and I (again, people who work for a living and therefore don’t vote for liberals) can solve the healthcare problem in a simple blog, for a fraction of the cost being proposed by Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy and the rest of the seditious left?

In addition to tort reform, we need to ban all medical care for illegal aliens.   If you are here illegally and get sick or get hurt, tough. You are breaking the law and perhaps your agony will serve as a deterrent to the rest of the gate crashing criminals.   To you pansies on the left, this isn’t cold or mean spirited; it is common sense. If you want healthcare, then get in line, come here legally, get a job and pay for healthcare like the rest of us.  Perhaps this risk will serve as a future deterrent from you returning to our land without permission.

Are there things the insurance carriers could do? Certainly.   In exchange for tort reform which will benefit them immensely, they could work to ensure that all policies are portable, pre-existing conditions are covered and contracts are clearly and unambiguously worded so the general public knows what they are receiving.   The government needs to help these initiatives along but giving a 100% tax credit to all insurance policies and medical costs incurred by policyholders.  Hey, if we have billions of dollars to spend to buy back clunkers, there's plenty of cash to do this. If there's not, then get the cash by cutting out worthless entitlement and welfare programs.

In addition to medical reform, we need drug reform. The FDA needs to cut the red tape so that pharmaceutical companies can get drugs to market faster.   The government needs to repeal all laws regarding purchasing drugs from other countries, as this will increase competition and drive down prices.   Pharmaceuticals need to stop passing their advertising costs onto consumers. Look, if you want to advertise feel free, but don’t pass along the costs of your lobbying efforts for genital enhancing drugs to me.   Lastly, let generics be developed within 12 months of name brands.  

As for the lawyers out there, they need to step up to help out.   If you have a legitimate medical malpractice case, fine; use the power of the courts to sue.   However, if you pursue a frivolous suit then you will be held personally liable.   The reality is that the types of people who pursue frivolous lawsuits are generally of the same caliber of person who voted for Obama.   They don’t have jobs, they don’t have money and are simply opportunists looking for a quick buck. Attorney’s need to be held accountable for their catering to this type of clientele.   If they pursue frivolous cases then they will be responsible for paying back the insurance companies.   Certainly the folks on the Hill won’t like this because many of them are either lawyers or in the pockets of the Trial Lawyers Association.  

Simply put, what has been laid out here will do exponentially more than ANYTHING the power mongering liberals will be able to do in Washington. Then again, this is why liberals hate facts.

Christopher Van

www.goldenpansy.com

A neighbor calls the police to support a suspected break in; the sign of a good neighbor.   The police promptly respond to apprehend the suspected burglars; the sign of a good police force.   Upon arriving at the scene of a potential crime, the officer confronts the suspect who it turns out was Harvard Professor Henry Gates who had locked himself out of his own home. 

Acting like any good cop would, Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley asked Mr. Gates for identification.   Rather than complying, Gates decided to play the race card and got belligerent with the officer who was doing nothing more than trying to serve and protect his community.    Gates was subsequently and justifiably arrested for his irresponsible actions and charged with disorderly conduct at which time President Obama, weighed in with a statement that the police acted stupidly. 

Apparently Obama is friends with Gates, who teaches African culture at Harvard. Apparently Obama made his statements without any foundation of fact, whatsoever, and most certainly without the assistance of his teleprompter.  While one would think that Obama has better things to do with his time, he apparently felt the urge to once again reinforce the so called plight of the black man in America.

The bigger issue is that the entire situation reflects the inherent racism that continues to percolate amongst many in the black community, who continue to use stereotypes in their ACORNesque approach to solving race relations in our nation.   Keep in mind that this entire situation could been averted had Gates simply kept his mouth shut and produced identification as the police had requested. 

Police are continually in the cross hairs of race pimps for doing nothing more than protecting their communities.   Anytime a high profile case involves a black defendant, rather than examine the facts, racists such as Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and now Henry Gates and Barack Obama use their bully pulpit to demonize law enforcement.