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Wednesday Chronicle
Vol. 09 No. 10
11 March 2009
http://patriotpost.us/

THE FOUNDATION

"With respect to the two words 'general welfare,' I have always regarded
them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take
them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the
Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not
contemplated by its creators." --James Madison
UPRIGHT

"If you compare the vision of our nation's founders to the behavior of
today's Congress, White House and U.S. Supreme Court, you would have to
conclude that there is no longer rule of law where there is a set of
general rules applicable to all persons. Today, we are commanded by
legislative thugs who, with Supreme Court sanction, issue orders
commanding particular people to do particular things. Most Americans
neither understand nor appreciate the spirit and letter of the
Constitution and accept Congress' arbitrary orders and privileges based
upon status." --economist Walter E. Williams

"Barely two months into his Presidency, Obama is wreaking havoc,
crippling the nation, oblivious to consequences and monumentally
arrogant, believing the timbre of his voice and the manipulation of the
media will win public confidence until the socialist utopia he believes
in comes to fruition. Who knows how bad it will be in a year, let alone
four?" --columnist Lance Fairchok

"Wall Street -- including the banking sector -- is burning itself down.
The fire is fueled by panic -- the final stage in a decline of
confidence -- and can only be put out by measures that restore
confidence. ... But President Obama -- having first claimed that only
government can solve the economic problems -- is failing to provide any
solutions Wall Street can believe in." --Human Events editor Jed Babbin

"Obama is a great pretender. He repeatedly says he's doing things that
he isn't, trusting his powerful rhetoric to obscure the difference."
--Washington Post editor Robert Samuelson

"You can't expect people to unite behind you if you're trying to jam a
whole bunch of things down their throat" --investor and Obama supporter
Warren Buffett
INSIGHT

"The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or
painting, in science or in literature, in industry or agriculture, have
never come from centralized government." --economist Milton Friedman
(1912-2006)

"We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we
please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to
appropriate a dollar of public money." --American hunter, frontiersman,
soldier and politician Davy Crockett (1786-1836)

"Politics are not the high class, marvelous thing that lots of you
picture. Our whole government workings are crammed with 'baloney.'"
--humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)
EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

"What's a life worth? Apparently not much in Great Britain. The National
Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, the government agency that
decides which treatments the National Health Service will pay for, has
effectively banned Lapatinib, a drug that was shown to slow the
progression of breast cancer, and Sutent, which is the only medicine
that can prolong the lives of some stomach cancer patients. Banning
beneficial drugs due to cost is nothing new in Britain. NICE, which has
to be one of history's most ironic acronyms, forbade the use of Tarceva,
a lung cancer drug proven to extend patients' lives, and Abatacept, even
though it's one of the only drugs that has been shown in clinical
testing to improve severe rheumatoid arthritis. Once again, we have to
ask: Do we really want to use the British system as the model for a U.S.
health care regime? Promises of an effective, cost-effective health care
system operated by the federal government are cruel fabrications. The
British system shows that the state makes a mess of health care. So does
the Canadian plan, which is plagued with unhealthy and often deadly
waiting times for treatment. The Swedish government system is no better.
It also refuses to provide some expensive medication and, inhumanely,
refuses to let patients buy the drugs themselves. Why? According to a
Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons article, bureaucrats believe
doing so 'would set a bad precedent and lead to unequal access to
medicine.' Like Canadians, Swedes are subjected to long waits. They also
have denial-of-care problems that sometimes lead to death. A reasonable
person would see the record of repeated failures in government-run
medicine as evidence that such a system is not sustainable. Yet every
central planner thinks he or she -- or his or her immediate group -- is
smart enough to correct the flaws of socialist programs and therefore
has the moral authority to force others to participate in his
experiments. It is the same thinking that will move a person to say we
are the ones we've been waiting for." --Investor's Business Daily

DEZINFORMATSIA

Get the shovel ready: "It's the government that's going to have to pull
us out of this recession." --CBS reporter Anthony Mason

Spinning for the White House: "The recession has now cost nearly
four-and-a-half million Americans their jobs. We'll show you the new
jobs his stimulus plan is creating. ... Some of the $787 billion in
stimulus money designed to create new jobs is already flowing through
the pipeline. At the other end of it, millions of people are waiting
hopefully for work." --CBS anchor Katie Couric

A liberal wakes up to liberalism: "President Obama's team, unlike Bush's
team, demonstrates a thinness of skin that shocks me. When I somewhat
obviously and empirically judged that the populist Obama administration
is exacerbating the crisis with its budget and policies, as evidenced by
the incredible decline in the [stock market] averages since his
inauguration, I was met immediately with condescension and ridicule
rather than constructive debate or even just benign dismissal. I said to
myself, 'What the heck? Are they really that blind to the Great Wealth
Destruction they are causing with their decisions to demonize the
bankers, raise taxes for the wealthy, advocate draconian cap-and-trade
policies and upend the health care system? Do they really believe that
only the rich own stocks? What do they think we have our retirement
accounts in, CDs? Where did they think that the money saved for college
went, our mattresses?" --MSNBC's Jim Cramer

Getting the facts wrong: "Reversing course. President Obama lifts the
ban on embryonic stem cell research... But is the president going far
enough?" --CBS's Julie Chen ++ From the Department of Corrections: "And
we should say, this under President Bush was not banned or illegal,
except now we're getting federal funding." --CBS's Maggie Rodriguez
later in the segment

Politics over science: "President Obama is going to fulfill one of his
campaign promises by ending restrictions on federally funded research
using embryonic stem cells. This could lead to better treatments and
possibly cures for many diseases. But it will not end a visceral
debate." --ABC's Lisa Stark **Name one cure for any disease found
through embryonic stem cell research. Just one.

Newspulper Headlines:

Free Pizza Delivery and Video Rental?: "Feds Unveil Plan to Help 9
Million Stay in Homes" --Associated Press

We Blame Global Warming: "Pinconning Area High School Will Become
Tropical Rain Forest on Monday" --Bay City (MI) Times

'This Trail Really Stinks': "More Than 800 Protest Sewer Hike" --Yuma
(AZ) Sun

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: "Burping Worms May
Contribute to Climate Change" --FoxNews.com

News You Can Use: "Drivers Find Roads Are Slippery After Snow"
--Baltimore Sun Web site

Bottom Stories of the Day: "Gas Problem Reported at Local Taco Bell"
--Dayton Daily News

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)
THE DEMO-GOGUES

Here he comes to save the day: "There are a lot of people out there who
are desperate. There's a lot of desperation out there. Today I want them
and the people like them across this country to know that I have not
forgotten them." --the Almighty Barack Obama

Troubles with the media: "It was hard for me to believe that you were
entirely serious about that socialist question." --Barack Obama to New
York Times reporters who dared ask such a thing about his policies

The BIG Lie: "[W]e've actually been operating in a way that has been
entirely consistent with free-market principles. ... The fact that we've
had to take these extraordinary measures and intervene is not an
indication of my ideological preference, but an indication of the degree
to which lax regulation and extravagant risk taking has precipitated a
crisis." --Barack Obama

Please do leave it alone: "[I]f coming in [to office] the market was
doing fine, nobody would be happier than me to stay out of it. You know,
I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the
financial system." --Barack Obama **We'd be more than happy for you
leave the financial system alone, too.

Quid pro quo: "We're going to make sure that in every policy, every
decision, we don't lose sight of the folks that brought us to the dance.
And toward that end, we have to make sure that the jobs we're creating
come with fair wages and decent benefits." --Vice President Joe Biden to
the AFL-CIO Executive Committee

The real agenda: "Never waste a good crisis ... Don't waste it when it
can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security."
--Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Politics over science II: "By lifting the executive ban on federal
funding for stem cell research, President Obama has given hope, and
potentially health, to millions. ... President Obama has also restored
science to its rightful place in our national debates." --House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

The truth about pork: "That there is something inherently evil, wicked
or criminal or wrong with ... [political pork earmarks], it's just not
the case. Otherwise, what happens? We give the money to the agency
downtown and they decide where to spend it. It isn't as if the money
won't be spent. Oh, it will be spent. But it may not be spent as
effectively or for projects that are as valuable." --Sen. *** Durbin
(D-IL)
VILLAGE IDIOTS

Stop debating? But that's what science is: "The scientific community has
gone through this chapter and verse. We have long since passed the time
when we should pretend this is a 'on the one hand, on the other hand'
issue. It's not a matter of theory or conjecture, for goodness sake."
--Al Gore

Blame Rush: "President Obama's a good friend of mine, and I'd just like
to think about him and, you know, I know -- you know Rush Limbaugh and a
lot of jackasses give him a hard time right now. They always trying to
divide and conquer the country. They've already ruined the country, and
now he's trying to save the country, and I want him to keep his head
held high." --former NBA star Charles Barkley

Maybe she actually gets it: "If you are just fed up, at some point, just
lean out your window and scream, 'I'm mad as hell,' 'cause that's what's
happening to me. I'm losing my mind, because I don't understand why --
like they -- one of the things that I saw recently, they have this whole
thing about taxing 'the wealthy.' Okay. Now, I don't mind that. I don't
mind paying a little more tax 'cause I make a good living. But I don't
want to get it coming and going. I don't want to get the federal raised
and then the state raised and then the phone tax raised and then the
television tax raised and then the city tax. Back off me!" --entertainer
Whoopi Goldberg
SHORT CUTS

"[M]any of us are hoping that all those in power fail, because those in
power have a grating habit of being annoyingly self-righteous,
hopelessly corrupt, resolutely incompetent and completely apathetic
about the freedoms that they have sworn to protect. Embrace the failure.
It's patriotic." --columnist David Harsanyi

"Obama brags -- albeit dishonestly -- that he's only raising taxes on
rich people. Ninety-five percent of the American people will get a tax
cut, the president insists. Well, which is it? Do the times demand
shared sacrifice from us all, or from just 5 percent of Americans? If I
say to 10 co-workers, 'We all need to chip in together to get this
done,' and then say, 'So, Todd, open your wallet and give five bucks to
everyone else in the room,' it would sound ridiculous. But when Obama
says the same thing to 300 million Americans it's called 'leadership.'"
--columnist Jonah Goldberg

"President Obama defended his plan for higher taxes on the rich. He is
determined to level out the distribution of wealth in America. It wasn't
historic enough for him to be our first black president, he also wants
to be our first red one." --comedian Argus Hamilton

Jay Leno:

There's talk President Barack Obama wants to lift trade restrictions
with Cuba, which is great news for anybody here looking to buy a '58
Buick.

Astronomers say they have discovered enormous black holes five billion
light years from Earth that is sucking up everything in their path. They
name the black holes "AIG-1" and "AIG-2."

Politicians in the state of Iowa have voted to rename their Department
of Elder Affairs. They're changing the name to the Department of Aging.
Have they thought this through? I mean, now, elderly people will be
calling the DOA.

Well according to National Enquirer, John Edwards has admitted to his
wife that he fathered a love child with his mistress. Is it really a
love child? Isn't it more like a "hurry up before my wife gets home"
child?

*****

Veritas vos Liberabit -- Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis!
Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot's editors and staff.

(Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around
the world, and for their families -- especially families of those fallen
Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted
their lives in defense of American liberty.)

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You are not going to get any liberal here to address comments by
Buffett or anybody else if they are not in line with the Koolade
talking points.

You are the enemy, to be slandered, ignored, called a rightard and all
the rest.

Hands on the ears and yelling 'la la la la la la la la la la", they
want to blame anything on you, Bush, Nixon, Rush, or anything else,
But they sure as hell are not going to directly discuss anything that
is not on the talking points.
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