Yesterday, Harry Reid informed the media that the August deadline for healthcare reform bills to be passed was a ficticious deadline that the media had created.
“That is a deadline that you created,” Reid told a group of about 75 reporters.
Really? So all this time for the last couple of months whenever the media reported that Obama was pushing for passing a healthcare bill by August, they were lying? Or do they have some sort of mind control over the President to make him espouse this deadline that they created?
Sen. Reid, please grow up and take responsibility for your own failures. The media did not create the deadline you were all touting. And while we are on the subject, the Republicans were not stopping you from passing the bill. And good luck getting the votes in September or October to try to pass this, I predict you will fail spectacularly.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Obama Beer Fest 09
Today is the day that Sgt. James Crowley, Prof. Henry Gates, and President Obama have a beer together to try to reconcile over the arrest of Prof. Gates. And there is now a discussion going on about the choices of beers being served - does that really matter?
But back to the main issue of this posting, I am getting tired of the media playing clips of people saying how shameful it was for Sgt. Crowley to arrest this 55 year old man who gets around on a cane, blah, blah, blah. Reports from witnesses stated that Gates had no problem walking without a cane when he as berating Sgt. Crowley outside of the house.
Even if he did need to use a cane, hell, if he had to use a wheelchair, SO WHAT? Does that mean that we should never arrest disabled people? How about old people, should they be immune from arrest as well? Age, race, disability, religion, sex, sexual preference - none of that should come into play into asking whether or not someone was rightfully arrested. The only question at hand should be did they break the law? Let a judge or a jury decided that even though they broke the law, it wasn't so eggregious as to needing to punish the person. Let the law enforcement officer just worry about whether or not a law was broken. KISS.
But back to the main issue of this posting, I am getting tired of the media playing clips of people saying how shameful it was for Sgt. Crowley to arrest this 55 year old man who gets around on a cane, blah, blah, blah. Reports from witnesses stated that Gates had no problem walking without a cane when he as berating Sgt. Crowley outside of the house.
Even if he did need to use a cane, hell, if he had to use a wheelchair, SO WHAT? Does that mean that we should never arrest disabled people? How about old people, should they be immune from arrest as well? Age, race, disability, religion, sex, sexual preference - none of that should come into play into asking whether or not someone was rightfully arrested. The only question at hand should be did they break the law? Let a judge or a jury decided that even though they broke the law, it wasn't so eggregious as to needing to punish the person. Let the law enforcement officer just worry about whether or not a law was broken. KISS.
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