See this reference:
http://www.liberalwhoppers.com/2010/03/21/draft-executive-order-on-abortion-funding-does-it-address-senate-accounting-trick/
I decided a while ago that those who said you could tell the truth by who screamed loudly and who didn't had a great idea. When NARAL and Planned Parenthood lauded the healthcare bill instead of castigating it, I knew that Bart Stupak had either been had or was always after the green and that the executive order wasn't fit to use for toilet paper.
That being said, I was a bit surprised that Commandant President signed it anyway. Why take the chance? I've now decided it was an exercise in stroking his monumental ego and a wry lawyer joke akin the the kind of games played by ER nurses ("yup, he's a gomer (get out of my emergency room)").
In this case, it's a way to say "let's see if these idiots catch on to how smart I am as a lawyer -- this isn't just unenforceable (because laws trump EOs -- it doesn't even do what it pretends to do" (cue the maniacal laughter). You can see the above link for details, but I believe the author is on to something.
The EO purports to ban the use of "appropriated funds" for providing abortions. This could perhaps trigger (in an ideal world) a huge backlash whereby the 70% of the country who does not favor killing live babies on dark tables in coat closets (as BO voted to allow while an Illinois Senator) withhold portions of their tax revenues as a form of protest. After all, they can't jail all of us, right? Well, here is yet another end-around. The money to fund abortions comes from (follow me here), the insurance companies -- not the federal government. Now maybe semantic differences matter a whole lot is sneaky lawyerly places like Washington DC or New York City, but where I live in the heartland, I don't care if you do put lipstick on a pig and call it Mary, I'm still not going to kiss it.
No sir, out here, if you force me to buy insurance under threat of fines or imprisonment, I call it what it is -- a government action -- and let's use a different word, it is awfully similar to a TAX. Yup, I see right through that. Now if you dictate to the insurance company I have to do business with what they can offer (a policy that covers abortion), then 2 things become true -- first, that insurance company just got taken over. I really don't care if you pretend to call it something different. Just like we now have Government Motors where we used to have GM, we will now have GI (Government Insurance -- you like the gastro-intestinal reference too? Because that's what it's going to feel like. So those formerly private company employees are government employees, GI is another arm of the government, and the GI product that kills babies using money I am coerced and threatened to pay them is still using my money to fund something I find morally objectionable. And that, is what a very wise man named Thomas Jefferson called tyranny.
So, go ahead and enjoy your little in-joke Mr. Obama. You can pretend you pulled the wool over us with your clever tricks like the magicians use, your sleight-of-hand and misdirection, your arcane use of legalese. But we here in the heartland see right through you. And I'm still hoping for a change -- the change that throws you and your Socialist cronies right out of office at the earliest possible opportunity.
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