Obama has set his sights on health care.  That sound you hear?  It’s America’s doctors getting up from their desks and heading for the exits.

Later this week, we’ll talk about why Barack embracing a “rationed health care” system should frighten the bejeezus out of you, but for now, let’s focus on how he wants to pay for it.  The plan?  More taxes, of course.  Specifically, he’s going to tax the health care benefits that workers already receive.  Until this point, employee health benefits have been tax exempt, but if you’re going to give free medical assistance to people who don’t work, and therefore don’t pay into the system, the cash has to come from somewhere.  Obama, in his infinite wisdom, has decided that the only answer is to confiscate more money from an already overburdened populace and, as he promised during the campaign, “spread it around.”

To each according to his needs, From each according to his ability.

It’s all part of his continued disdain for successful Americans.  He believes fervently that those who have achieved prosperity in this country have done so at the expense of others, that their success is nothing more than evidence of what a “downright mean country” the United States is.  As time passes, it’s become all too clear that the real goal of his administration is not health care, or environmental reform, but a correction of what he sees as America’s fundamental flaw:  the basic fact that some people have more than others.

That’s it - nothing complicated.   Obama’s one deeply held ideal, maybe the only thing on which he will never waffle, is that it’s simply immoral for one person to be wealthy while another is poor. 

His election marked the start of the zero sum game, the goal of which is true economic equality.  He’ll achieve it through a massive expansion of taxation, and a massive contraction of personal freedom.  The only question is if  individual states will put up with it.  Already there are rumblings over state’s rights, an issue that seems antiquated but has, in fact, been ignored for far too long.  Montana, Utah, and Texas are leading the fight and we’d all better pray that they’re successful.  If  not, when everyone in the US  is equally poor, equally miserable, and living under the boot of a massive bureaucracy, Obama will be able to take the stage at the U.N. and declare proudly: “Mission Accomplished.”

-Robert Laurie

Vice Presidential gaffe machine Joe Biden has stepped in it again, this time endangering his own life in the process. 

According to Newsweek’s Washington contributing editor, Elenor Clift, Biden revealed the existence and location of a super-secret vice-presidential bunker at a recent soiree.   The event was the Gridiron Club Dinner, an annual party where high-level politicians can hob-knob with high-level media types and, no doubt, tell them what they should be reporting.

Biden apparently told the assembly that the bunker is located beneath the Vice President’s home, formerly the U.S. Naval observatory.   It’s likely the same place Dick Cheney was secured immediately following the 9/11 attacks.  If Biden had stopped there, it would probably be forgivable, since everyone with half a brain already assumes that such a facility would exist.  Unfortunately, the vice president decided to get more specific.

According to the Newsweek blog, Biden claimed “a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment.” 

Not satisfied to just give away secrets, Biden used the moment to take a dig at the previous VP.  “The officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down, this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn’t be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall.”

While debate rages about whether or not Barack Obama is making the country less safe from terrorist attack, we can be 100% sure that Joe Biden has.  Thanks to Joe, terrorists have a new target, a classified location meant to preserve the integrity of the line of succession during our nations darkest moments.

Good going, Mr. Biden.  Today America is less safe.  At least for you.

-Robert Laurie