People will call them immature and ignore them for using Rocket Man.

Didn’t somebody vote for Hussein that had some similarity in naming, let me check…

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2016/01/why-i-quit-watching-debate-halfway.html

Let’s see, Althouse, althouse… there we go.

I did go on to vote for Obama. I voted for him before I voted against him (in 2012). Or… it’s more accurate to say: I voted against McCain before I voted against Obama. I’m just not that enthusiastic about political candidates.

When you can’t vote your conscience, don’t vote. If you don’t have a conscience, just roll the coin. What’s the worse that can happen, the IRS blows up the Tea Party protests?

T Says:
September 21st, 2017 at 3:05 pm
From over at Ann Althouse’s blog (posted @8:40 AM) an interesting aside:

Might as well pay attention to Goldmansachs admin criticizing Cruz’s wife for being a Gold Man sachs employee in the past.

” . . . just about every time I think he’s [i.e., Trump] blundered or shown himself not up to the job, something changes my mind as the dust settles.”

“And about his two recent semi-deals with Chuck and Nancy that I dumped all over a few days ago. Today those deals look rather different in their impact going forward.”

The link:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/09/why-trump-is-so-much-fun.php

We tend to forget that Trump was initially educated not in “The Academy” but in military school and is undoubtedly familiar with the military history of diversion and feint attacks and how they can be successfully used.

It has been a fascinating 8 months.

Someday the United States will abolish its noble classes to become democratic.

“So, striking a deal with the Democrats on the budget, President Trump – and the Democrats Pelosi and Schumer – opened up another chance for Republicans to repeal Obamacare. That’s striking.” [Thomas Kaplan]

“Is Trump that crafty? Did Schumer and Pelosi fall into a trap? I’m inclined to answer those questions yes if only because the 2 NYT reporters – who I doubt would give Trump any extra credit – made me think about it that way.” [Ann Althouse]

As to the government running healthcare policy– in a sense they already do.

I recently had an issue common to mature men. My PSA level went from 4 to 11, one year to the next. I asked for a second test to make sure that wasn’t an error and the doctor refused to authorize it, telling me that medicare wouldn’t pay for two tests that close together.
I’m not on medicare but private company insurance– and he still resisted, though I finally browbeat him into authorizing it.

I got the impression he would get a black mark on his record for that.

Is it possible the government is already keeping track of what type of care doctors are dispensing?

In fiscal year 2015, according to the CMS.gov (the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare spending) Medicare spending was $646 billion and Medicaid spending was $545 billion of which $201 billion was from state budgets.

Private health insurance spending was $2.4 trillion and out of pocket spending was $338 billion for the total NHE (National Health Expenditures) spending of $3.2 trillion or $9,990 per person.

I had read estimates that the federal deficit was expected to rise back to $1 trillion annually by 2020– though that figure might be lower due to increased economic growth in the economy.

Leaving aside all the arguments why the government isn’t the best vehicle for making national healthcare decisions, no one is talking about how they are going to raise the revenue to pay the $800 billion deficit spending by government medical spending right now.

Would some politician somewhere please explain how we’re going to pay for the services the government already provides (and please no waste, fraud and abuse– though there is plenty of that (especially waste) in government spending).

The liberal argument for Medicare for all is by the magic hand of the government, they can take the $2.4 trillion dollars in spending from private health insurance and reduce spending by $700 billion dollars, all the while offering the same level of service.

They say they’re going to do that in two ways, if I understand the argument. Reducing payments to healthcare providers (the power of monopoly) and stripping the administrative costs and profit that the healthcare insurance companies presently reap.

Is that possible?

I’ll pay attention when they, Congress, actually do something.

And, if SCt can overturn Plessy v Ferguson, and expand Constitutional”rights” to those shadowed by penumbras, and call a penalty a tax in one part of a law and call it a penalty in another part of a law, then it maybe could some day overturn Wickard v. Filburn. Not likely, but wouldn’t it be GREAT? 🙂

You write “If the gov. of California wants to force CA citizens to worship the redwoods for one week out of the year, or else pay a $10K penalty, um tax, it would NOT be unconstitutional any more. ”

I hate to break it to you, but yes, it would be unconstitutional because it would violate the separation of church and state, albeit at the state but not the federal level. So it would violate their First Amendment rights. It’s not only the feds who are not allowed to do but the states are not allowed to do it either, because the First Amendment has also been ruled to apply to the states.