Posted by
Blogging Conservative Granny on Monday, December 21, 2009 4:48:47 PM
While You Were Sleeping is one of the holiday movie favorites of the younger female set in my family. While we were all sleeping last night, Congress was doing another vote to set us all up with health care. I hear the botox tax is out (perhaps the concession to the Speaker of the House?); tanning tax is in. Neither one would affect me. If I want to get skin cancer, I'll do it the old-fashioned way and get some fresh air with it.
Please
watch this minute-and-a-half clip on youtube. There's nothing like revisionist history from the President. He claims the national debt doubled under the previous administration. I have this irritating little characteristic. In Biblical terms, we call it being Berean. I went looking for the facts.
With this handy-dandy application on the Treasury website, you can deal with actual figures. From January 21, 2001 to January 21, 2009, the national debt increased just over 81%. From January 21, 2009 to December 21, 2009 it increased approximately 13.8%. Not even allowing for the fact that there's a month left in Obama's first year, if he gets eight years (God forbid!), the national debt will increase 110%! And we're talking about more than doubling a larger number than that evil George Bush actually didn't double.
Americans for Prosperity and Huckabee were having
a rally in Omaha today to put pressure on Ben Nelson to withdraw his support from the healthcare legislation. I would have liked to have gone, but I needed to go to the doctor. I told him I was trying to get all my healthcare done before the government takes it over.
I have a great doctor. He's smart and caring. Usually he has a joke of the day.
Not today. I suspect he's as down as I am about what's going on in Washington.
Another doctor, Sen. Tom Coburn, said on the floor of the Senate that we need to be praying for divine intervention. I agree.
UPDATE: I just discovered that the Omaha rally was yesterday. The email was mailed early Sunday morning and said "tomorrow." It's a good thing I didn't go! You can
sign a petition to Sen. Ben Nelson here.