Comments on: Obama’s war on specialists https://thenewneo.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:28:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Baklava https://thenewneo.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-129027 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:57:50 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-129027 Neo,

Off topic but important

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm

]]> By: br549 https://thenewneo.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-129010 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:59:26 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-129010 Specialists have saved my life twice, because of incredible knowledge and skill, in the last 5 years. I guess the world is just getting too crowded and the left around the world wants to thin the herd.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-129002 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:30:54 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-129002 No, it won’t give libs pause. They figure they’ll have a special list for specialists….. Hey, how about that?
Nope. The penalties to be paid for American hubris and exceptionalism are always going to be paid by others.
And serves them right, too.

]]> By: Mrs Whatsit https://thenewneo.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-128987 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:53:19 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-128987 There’s been a strong vein of vindictiveness toward specialists in this thing from the beginning, such as Obama’s dishonest and inaccurate claims that surgeons do tonsillectomies in order to make money and are paid wildly exaggerated amounts for amputations — and also, the refusal of Congress to enact tort reform that would place limits on malpractice liability that helps to drive some over-testing. Loving lawyers, hating doctors: yet another way that Congress seems to have the views of most ordinary Americans backwards. (And I’m a lawyer!)

]]> By: SteveH https://thenewneo.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-128984 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:36:38 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-128984 Progressives are just planning ahead for no one being able to afford a specialist.

]]> By: J.J. formerly Jimmy J. https://thenewneo.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-128979 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:40:29 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-128979 Link sent to all on my mailing list.

Maria Cantwell, one of my Senator’s is on the Baucus Committee. She is going to get a phone call. Not that it will do any good! Except to make me feel like I’ve put another sandbag on the dike that’s trying to hold back the flood.

]]> By: Ed Bonderenka https://thenewneo.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-128976 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:19:24 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-128976 “Mediocrity in all things is like a noble goal for modern progressives.”
You meant Nobel goal, right Steve?

]]> By: Promethea https://thenewneo.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-128975 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:08:14 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-128975 Well I guess both my husband and I are on Obama’s death list.

Thanks, Obama, for all that you’ve done for us. I’ll see you in Hell.

]]> By: SteveH https://thenewneo.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-128932 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:47:22 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/10/10/obamas-war-on-specialists/#comment-128932 No surprise here. Fits perfectly with his scheme of dismantling the most highly specialized nation that existed.

Mediocrity in all things is like a noble goal for modern progressives.

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